Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bending down, M. Clemenceau placed a wreath upon the coffin. A moment later, he walked in silence to his motor car and was driven away...
Gasoline Tax. Last year four states (Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York) assessed no taxes on gasoline. The 44 other states collected $146,028,940 (83% more than in 1924, 450% more than in 1923), averaging 2.26? a gallon, $9.22 a car, according to a Department of Agriculture report last week...
Ford's Year. By the Ford Motor Co.'s report for 1925, published last week, assets were $742,913,568; surplus, $622,366,893; motorized units produced, 2,103,578 cars. Henry Ford, Mrs. Ford and son Edsel B. own practically all the 172,645 shares. Estimates of their profits range from $547 to $666 a share, $45 to $55 a car...
...Approximately how much profit for Ford per car? (If you come within $5 of the right amount, answer counts correct.) (See BUSINESS & FINANCE...
...RATHER ENJOYED IT?P. G. Wodehouse?Doran ($2). This is one of those books which, if read in a club car or dentist's waiting room, will cause people to glare at you, pretend to stare out the window and finally move away. Readers realizing that private mirth is a public nuisance will, unless malicious, arrange to meet Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge in some secluded spot. He is a rather large, angular young man with a napping yellow mackintosh, a piercing eye, a jumpy back collar-button and no economic roots in society save vigorous tendrils of loquacity with which...