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None the less, U. S. rubber manufacturers are at the mercy of British growers. Vexed, last week Firestone, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber, Goodyear, Ajax, Fisk, Kelly-Springfield decided to circumvent the forestallers. They invited General Motors, Willys-Overland, Dodge Bros., Packard, Studebaker and other interested firms into their compact; created a $40,000,000 fund to buy up at once 50,000 tons ($30,000,000 worth) of crude rubber. This will be put in storage. If crude prices go above 42? a pound, manufacturers can draw on this store or the whole amount may be dumped against a rising...
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Wholly new manufactures were present: the Diana, the Nash-built Ajax and a new six developed by General Motors in its Oakland organization. This new six, called the Pontiac, was priced between the Chevrolet and the Oakland to fulfill the General Motors policy of making a car "for every purse and purpose...
...forms, including the nude. Ladies would prod his dorsal, deltoid and pectoral development with carefully gloved fingers and ask if he were real. Sporting gentlemen with Damn-my-eyes and By-God-Sirs would lay their wagers on him when he matched strength with Samson, Cyclops, Atlas, Ajax or Hercules (rival strongmen). He was renowned for many years as the "strongest man in the world." He was appointed private trainer to His Majesty George V. He made a large fortune by bringing people into contact with dumbbells...
...Fellows to investigate Benjamin Franklin's contribution to the science of electricity. The famous experiment of the key and kite, resulting in the only shock of Franklin's life, is even doubted by incredulous scientists. Such belitttling of the school-boys favorite picture of Franklin "defying the lightning like Ajax Telamen", should certainly be investigated, even though a disastrous precedent...