Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five dollars per year for TIME. I want news for my five dollars, not prying questions. What difference does it make to you whether I am 14 or 40, ditchdigger or druggist ? What business of yours is it if I own a Ford or a Lincoln or no car at all? My subscription is paid...
This rah-rah stuff is the bunk. I drive a car, as you will see, and it cost more than $1,000 and not second hand. But I never went to college. I can read, all right, so I guess I'm just as good a prospect for your advertisers as if I had spent four years loafing in school some place...
...prairie schooner" was usually referred to as the "Conestoga" wagon. It took its name from the vehicle-the predecessor of the modern freight car-which carried freight in the 1790's from Philadelphia to Lancaster and the Conestoga country over the Old Lancaster Pike. When this road, the pioneer turnpike of the continent, was extended westward over the Alleghenies into Steubenville and the Ohio Lands, the Conestoga Wagon went with it and so became a symbol of the westward march of the pioneer...
Ford Implications. Ford Motor Co. placed a materials order at Cleveland last week, which implies the coming production of a new Ford car with larger brake drums and gasoline tank and a changed running board. The modifications require 17,000 tons of steel additional to the company's normal annual tonnage. If Ford bodies were made entirely of steel, the increased tonnage would be 55,000, according to the Daily Metal Trade...
...Car-loadings. This is becoming an all-time record year for the movement of fully loaded railroad cars. In the first 42 weeks of the year, 42,832,438 cars were loaded, more than during any previous like period. Twenty-one of these weeks were million-car weeks...