Word: pioneering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kollsman is the name of a shy, German-born inventor who studied mechanical engineering at the technical schools of Stuttgart and Munich, in 1923 emigrated to the U. S., found work as a truck driver's assistant, then as a mechanic for Pioneer Instrument Co., a Bendix subsidiary. By 1928 Paul Kollsman had accumulated $500 and started Kollsman Instrument...
...made money every year. Though Sperry led in gyroscopic instruments, and Pioneer continued to make most of the magnetic compasses, engine gauges, accelerometers, etc.. Kollsman's pet patented altimeter soon copped nearly all of the altimeter market. He made many another fine dashboard instrument besides. Wall Street houses heard of him, urged that he issue stock to finance expansion. Shy Bachelor Paul Kollsman declined, continued to pile earnings back into the company...
...duty to go cut a black gum toothbrush for my Grandmother, who was a snuff dipper. Practically all the elderly Christian mothers and grandmothers of that community (Hickory Grove, Texas) were snuff dippers. These modern women with one baby and a cigaret could learn a lot from these pioneer women. Snuff dippers don't talk much. . . so they do considerably more thinking. Smoke is the ghost of tobacco. Chewing tobacco is its body, but snuff is the soul of nicotine . . . the mark of men with hair on their chests and women who raise breast-fed babies that make...
...described these quirks of habit well known to local mathematicians since the beginning of the century, even better known to Bellboys since the House was built. Such affection is a rare tribute to the man who has proved himself not only a scholar and a teacher, but a successful pioneer Housemaster...
...conservative Democrat, Banker Hanes is capable, hardworking, no pioneer. His family has not needed a pioneer since the late textile tycoon John W. Hanes Sr. piled up a fortune in the Hanes Hosiery Mills, invested most of it in R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels). From him Son Hanes inherited about half a million dollars. But neither he nor any of his brothers coasted on their inheritance. All of them have made careers for themselves. Most notable is John W., who made a bigger fortune than his father, is now Under Secretary of the U. S. Treasury. Dr. Frederick...