Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Along the west coast competition is zero for Pan-American, stupendous for anyone else. Manhattan's Joseph Peter Grace and William Russell Grace, brothers, are the commercial tsars. They control ships (Grace Line), trading companies (chiefly for heavy machinery), banks. Peruvians respect and follow their courteously covered commands. Other west coast nationals do likewise, from Ecuador to Chile...
...when he forms a west coast line, it will probably join at once with the New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line which Ralph A. O'Neill is shoving through along the east coast. The same U. S. money is back of both...
...responsible" for an additional $125,000. He has been "mentioned" for Ambassador to France, Japan, Turkey. After the War, when King Albert of Belgium visited Toledo as guest of Brand Whitlock, a fleet of Willys-Knights received the royal party. When a newsman in an Oldsmobile attempted to tag along with the procession, a policeman forced him to the curb. Ever since 1900 when, as Fierce-Arrow sales-agent he wore out his first Fierce-Arrow demonstrating it, he has been "good copy" in automotive news...
...died, 92 years old, in 1927, left in his will a clause asking his heirs to carry on his business, and, "if legally possible [to carry it on] as formerly conducted by me." Last March George Ehret Jr., died. The seven remaining heirs, headed by Louis Ehret, struggled along. Their employes had thinned to 123, their sales to 100,000 barrels per annum. At length they decided that theirs was a hopeless plight...
...Civil War still a vivid memory, economy was a popular word and patterns were economical. Scotsman McCall knew how to make them, for he had once been a tailor. Soon the wife of his secretary, writing under the name of May Manton, started The Queen, eight-page fashion sheet. Along with McCall patterns, The Queen prospered in a small way. After Scotsman McCall's death in 1885 May Manton's husband, George H. Bladworth, took charge of The Queen, eventually made it McCall's Magazine...