Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once there were 88 U. S. motor car manufacturers. Now there are 47. Mishaps and mergers reduced the number. Analogous has been the career of the aviation industry during the rapid past three years of its expansion. There are about 350 makers of airplanes, five of lighter-than-air craft, 30 of motors. Those concerns too have had their mishaps and mergers, especially mergers. The majority of them now belong to what until last week were four groups?United Aircraft & Transport, Aviation Corp., Curtiss-Keys, and "Hoyt." Last week the Curtiss and "Hoyt" groups merged...
...deliberately defy the moral and legal codes of organized society." He tries to stop as short of libel as of praise. Psychologically, his work is a study of the U. S. single-track mind engaged in the prime U. S. occupation?money-making. Historically, the work treats of a career coincident with the entire post-Civil War development of U. S. industry...
...astonishing reports came to the locker room. Jones had taken seven on two par4 holes. Incredible as it seemed, Jones, teeing off at the 18th, had already played 75 shots, the worst round of his medal championship career...
Tall, gaunt William Tatem Tilden II once hurt his finger on his right hand while he was at the height of his career. It was characteristic of him to walk down a Philadelphia theatre aisle holding the injured member aloft so that all might see. Miss Wills, ace of women players, from the opposite edge of the U. S., is just the opposite sort of person...
...present the Post's circulation is half again as large as Liberty's, some three million copies to two. In "estimating" the future, the Liberty cousins showed the Post creeping hesitantly to about three millions while Liberty reached that figure in steady upward dashes. The Post's career after the memorable Christmas of 1934 was shown continuing vaguely off the side of the graph with about four million circulation at the end of 1937. Liberty, however, was shown dashing onward and upward with such verve that it went quite out of sight at the top of the graph...