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Chrysler bought Maxwell it has made a four, competed with Chevrolet and Ford. But a cheaper four with newsworthy features and a determined selling campaign would make Chrysler a far bigger factor in the field than hitherto. To develop its new car, Chrysler Corp. has spent $500,000 in experimental work and testing, $2,000,000 in tooling, dies and machinery, $7,500,000 in supplying its 10.000 Plymouth dealers with display and demonstration cars. In Detroit is I he Plymouth plant, considered one of the most modern in the industry. Although it has a capacity of 2,000 cars...
...Roman Catholic Church has taken bigger men than Mussolini and eaten them for dessert...
...prime reason for the change was to make golf harder for expert players. It was said that things had come to such a pass that long hitters like Bobby Jones and Horton Smith never had a chance to play a brassie shot. The bigger lighter ball adopted by the U. S. G. A. (1.68 in. diameter, 1.55 oz.) is about the same as the Spalding "black domino" of a decade ago. It was designed to take yardage away from long hitters and put a premium on accuracy in the wind. To mediocre players and duffers-who constitute the vast golfing...
Oldest mayor in the party came from the smallest town. He was Alvin Parker Gray, 78, of Pasco, Wash. (pop. 3,500). He said he was going to "team-up" with the youngest mayor, R. B. Marvin of Syracuse, N. Y., who is 33. Bigger and louder than even St. Louis' Victor J. ("Oh, Boy") Miller was Mayor George L. Baker of Portland, Ore. Large, breezy, beetle-browed Mayor Baker lost no time in making himself the personage of the party. He wore a 10-gallon hat, was elected chairman of the delegation, gave out the big interview during...
...Bicentennial Hard Times Party'' of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, a thriving, purposeless organization of men who at some time or other manned the pump-handle of an organ. Last week's meeting was typical of most (there have been nine), but it was bigger & better. Presiding was the founder and Grand Diapason, spare, bald-pated Author Chester Werntz ("diet") Shafer. As usual, most of the hilarity was provided by the "business" report, weightily and pompously delivered by Author Moore, Vox Humana (and Acting Tremolo) of the Guild. Vox Humana Moore pointed with pride...