Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular crew asked no questions when he sent them, to dismantle the Diener factory. After moving out safes, typewriters, files and adding machines from the office and $30,000 worth of machinery from the plant, they proceeded on Mr. Rockwood's orders to tear down a three-car garage, a brick mill, a woodcutting shed 100 ft. by 30 ft. From the Steven plant, which had been closed since 1933, Wrecker Rockwood's men took, among other things, a 15-ton derrick, two electric hoists worth $4,500. Mr. Rockwood, explained Prosecutor Thompson, had disposed of his huge...
...watched the progress of invention in other countries, has tried generally with success to buy samples of many of the newest and best machines in order to copy them for home production. Thus it is possible in the vast Soviet Union to see the newest machinery, the latest street car, the last word in streamlined busses-imported as models. The Soviet is presently to see the world's newest, biggest airplane-built in the U. S.-long before any such craft exists in any other country. Last week, after months of secret construction, this giant had its first tests...
...Speeding military trucks added to the confusion, running down soldiers and refugees who did not step aside in time. I saw a munitions truck explode near me and watched an armored car burn. At Fengyang a red-eyed, swollen-lipped figure hailed me. He was General Sun Lien-chung, Commander of the 26th Battalion. He stood disconsolately outside the gate of the city and remarked: 'Things are upside down...
Died. Howard Earle Coffin, 64, cotton textile manufacturer, boomer of Georgia coastal resorts, onetime vice president of Hudson Motor Car Co. and member of the Wartime U. S. Aircraft Production Board; when a loaded rifle he was appar-ently cleaning for a deer-hunt went off; at Sea Island Beach...
...Banning Buddhism because "it is too sad," he likes the Taoist-Confucianist view better, but cheerfully admits that he has taken many of his opinions from humbler authorities who include "Mrs. Huang, an amah in my family; a Soochow boatwoman with her profuse use of expletives; a Shanghai street car conductor ... a lion cub in the zoo; a squirrel in Central Park in New York. . . ." But his main guide is himself...