Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your ignorant "Press" editor ought to be more familiar with the history of the press. There wasn't any "hearth." There was a private car in the Michigan Central yards in Chicago. In it William H. Vanderbilt was dining with some friends when an offensive young reporter, Clarence Dresser (who was I believe a brother of Theodore Dreiser), forced his way in demanding an interview. Mr. Vanderbilt did not want to see him but the reporter persisted. Finally Mr. Vanderbilt told him to wait till he had finished eating. The reporter could not be stopped: "But it is late...
...Yorkers smiled indulgently at this declaration; they knew they had a horse worth a dozen Bubbling Overs; a horse that won the Hopeful and the Futurity last year; a small-hooved, huge-thewed bay colt by Sun Briar out of Cleopatra, who arrived in Louisville in a private car padded with silver canvas. They mentioned the morning that this horse had taken his first workout in the chill dews of seven o'clock- a morning when the trainer had stood at the rail, frantically signaling Watson the exercise boy, to slow down, while the split-second gentry compared watches...
...producer. Until 1891 he was a farmer and he knows that it takes time to grow a good crop. After that he became a carriage trimmer and later began to apply his crop-growing abilities to motor firms. By 1910 he was President of the Buick Motor Car Co. Later he served four years as President of General Motors. In 1916 he founded the company which bears his name, a business which is the greatest crop he ever grew. Last year its net profits were $16,256,000, and in January, 1926, resulting in the 900% stock dividend. Naturally...
...Cadillac, Buick, Chevrolet, Oakland, Pontiac,* Oldsmobile, G.M.C. Truck- General Motors makes them all. Last week this corporation sold its 5,000,000th motor vehicle and simultaneously marked the 1,002,285th car sale during the last twelvemonth. It took them nine years to sell their first 1,000,000, nine years to sell the last...
...This six-cylander car was first offered for sale the beginning of the year. Now its production has reached...