Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experts have at times disowned or retracted strategies they once commenced. Not Whitehead. He is conservative, a grandfather. He comes from Columbus, used to be president of Simplex Automobile Co. when it made cars you could not wear out. The word "Simplex" was cut deep on a triangle of brass on the blunt bonnet. As he grew older Mr. Whitehead felt that business interfered with his real passion; he gave up business. He runs his school, lectures and writes on bridge. His rates for ten lessons sent by mail is $10; personal tutoring runs much higher...
...motive power. In the U. S. the Austin Co. has laid out the famed proving grounds of General Motors, built a foundry for Cadillac, put up in record time the Oakland-Pontiac plant. Similarly in Austingrad there will be a proving ground, foundries for grey iron, malleable iron, brass, aluminum, and separate but coordinated shops for every phase of automotive construction-bodies, radiators, wheels, springs. Even the water and sewage systems will be laid by Austin, and the contract price includes a theatre, library, civic centre, fire department, laundry, electric and gas plants, schools, office buildings, homes and dormitories...
Among the 250,000, the words "Kansas" and "Capper" ever recurred. Besides the customary news features were six special sections praising the State and its Publisher- Senator. Hymned were Kansas business, buildings, sports, nonagenarians, airlife, roads, history, brass bands, debutantes, geology, wild animals. Described were the Capper publishing plant, genealogy, policies, hopes...
...Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams. He offered to buy the Olympia from the Government, proposed to recondition her and anchor her in the Potomac near Washington, where hordes of sightseers could poke fun at her outdated guns or gravely consider the footprints on her bridge, outlined in brass tacks, where Admiral (then Commodore) Dewey stood when he said: "You may fire when ready, Gridley...
With the latest Mexican revolution successfully quashed, Secretary of War General Plutarco Elias Calles returned in triumph to the arms of his President and the streets of his capital. Waiting on the Mexico City railway platform to greet him was President Emilio Portes Gil, three brass bands, 25 Mexican generals...