Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vermeer, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Romney, Lawrence, Hals, Rembrandt, and bought by Andrew Mellon because life is a fine art and such things belong to it naturally when you can afford them. Something of the same instinct that acquired the Mellon paintings is also seen in the Mellon motor car, which was specially designed and constructed entirely of aluminum, not because Mr. Mellon was a power in the aluminum industry but because it seemed a perfect thing to do, and perhaps useful to others...
Police tried to trace a Red motor car...
...year-old assistant bookkeeper in a Cleveland commission house. That all-inclusive creed, conceived in youth, ex- pressed at the philosopher's age, was the lone recorded feat of Mr. Rockefeller's imagination. Otherwise, he has exhibited no great creative imagination. But give even a street car conductor a mighty creed, give him an almost perfect mathematical determination to carry it out, and he will build tracks to the ends of the earth...
...Raskob made predictions: "The normal output [of U. S. motor cars] I should judge to be about 4,500,000 cars per annum. Figuring the life of a car as about five years, replacements should bring the annual normal output to about 5,000,000 cars. This figure has not yet been reached. . . .† Last year General Motors' export business [193,830 cars & trucks worth wholesale $171,991,251] equaled in volume the entire business of the company ten years ago. I see no reason why ten years hence our export business will not equal our total business...
...penalties exacted by the law for misdoings excel in rigor that demanded by the public of those who have committed the crime of becoming famous. Ridden through the city in an open car in the rain, surrounded by vociferous mobs whenever they dared show their faces, and finally forced to escape a throng of their well-wishers by a service elevator, the aviators now visiting Boston will have memories of a trip that was exciting if not always comfortable. Not that theirs is an exceptional case, for the past year has given the public many victims, but even an "annus...