Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about that, for everybody in Cleveland will be kidding me about it. But I am awfully anxious to get back to flying again. It's much safer than driving an automobile, at least for me. I'd feel safer flying a ship to Columbus* than driving a car. But you know how wives...
Through his capital, Phnôm-Penh, the body of King Sisowath was borne, last week, in a jewel-studded golden urn, displayed atop a tall, pyramid-like funeral car. At the time of his death, the once straight and stocky King Sisowath, delight of his 100 wives, had been doubled up and forced into the urn. Over him was poured mercury and then a topping of aromatic oils. Previously the Monarch's eldest son, now King Monivong of Cambodia, had intoned in the dead King's ear: "May Buddha receive you. May Buddha receive you! MAY BUDDHA...
Before the funeral car advanced 200 heralds and standard bearers, caparisoned, magnificent. Squealing and rasping followed an immense native orchestra. Next came, lumbering and lurching, a score of royal elephants bearing jewel-studded howdahs. Shielded by the howdah curtains sat King Monivong and others of the blood royal whose stern stomachs easily withstood the motion. As the procession passed, both French and native troops lined the way, saluted the funeral car, and kept the multitude of mourners back...
Rumors of a $600,000,000 merger involving the Baldwin Locomotive, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing, Westinghouse Air Brake, American Steel Foundries, American Rolling Mills and Standard Steel Car Companies were rife in Wall Street last week. Arthur W. Cutten, Chicago grain speculator and Manhattan stock market operator, was reported to have drawn up a plan with the Fisher brothers (Charles T., Fred J., Lawrence P. & William A., Detroit capitalists of Fisher Body fame), for a holding company into which the stockholdings of these recently successful investors would be pooled. A community of interest between six of the most prominent railway...
...tinker in Kokomo, Ind., Maxwell, with two others, Elmer Apperson and Elwood Haynes, built the first automobile manufactured in the U. S. (now stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure car depression of the early part of the War, as a nucleus for the development in 1925 of the Chrysler, now a highly successful international...