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This business was founded in 1900 on Palmer Street. After two years there it moved to its present location in Quincy Square, opposite the Union, where the concrete garage was built in 1906. In these pioneer days Ramblers and Stanley Steamers were sold. In the main, however, they devoted themselves to storage and repairing of all makes of cars. Among their earliest Harvard customers were Professor Kennedy, Vincent Astor, Robert Goelet, the Cudahy Brothers, Morgan Belmont, Frederick Prince, the Iselens, and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. In 1913, the Ford Motor Company, who up to this time had not built either...
...largest slum clearance project Britain has ever known. Covering all England and Wales, it was to employ 115,000 men continuously for five years, cost the nation ?115,000,000 ($575,000,000). In various cities 266,851 tenements were to be demolished and new houses built, to rent from $1.50 to $2 per week for small houses, from $2.25 to $3 for flats. In country districts 31,000 insanitary buildings were to be destroyed...
Complete and gleaming on the floor of the Sikorsky plant in Bridgeport, Conn. last week stood the biggest passenger airplane ever built...
...that of the fabulous Baker bank - Manhattan's First National. In financial stature George F. Baker with his sideburns and fedora towered beside his great & good friend John Pierpont Morgan, the Elder. Jacob Henry Schiff rose to the undisputed leadership of U. S. Jewry. Almost single-handed he built up the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. from a small concern founded in Lafayette, Ind. by two retired commission merchants, to a point where its only rival in power & prestige was the House of Morgan. Philosophical old Jacob Schiff had a favorite saying: "On the mountain top all paths...
This remark came early in an address entitled "Can We Rehabilitate the Criminal," Bates, a solidly built, quick-witted, unaffected speaker, began his remarks in this vein: "I daresay there is considerable difference of opinion here on this subject. Furthermore, I am a bit hesitant about talking penology before such a gathering as this--between the Gloomy Gluecks on the one side and the Guiltless Gill on the other. (Loud and prolonged clapping) If I had said guilty, (aside to Gill) I suppose there wouldn't have been any applause...