Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high prices for crude oil and even for its refined products. Large companies, however, stocked the excess crude oil product, and refineries greatly increased their stocks of gasoline. This policy seemed fairly safe at the time, because of automobile makers' confident predictions of a 5,000,000 car year in 1924 and a consequent heavy increase in gasoline consumption...
...difficult to deny the brilliance and integrity of a remarkably large number of outstanding figures in the field of journalism--in the past, and even in the present, in which, of course one is most interested. If it be assumed that all others belong in the "ex-street car men" category, and that the few prominent examples are without less conspicuous but able and honest counterparts then perhaps the journalistic world is really as barren as we are asked to believe. Perhaps it holds no opportunities for the man of moderate ability. But this does not seem to be fully...
Newspaper reporting and editing are so incredibly easy that most of the staffs are mainly recruited from ex-street car men, unfrocked clergymen, broke brokers, countermen, steer bulldoggers et also. The pay is incredibly poor. Rather than work for a newspaper for $15 per week, it would be better to get a job as a board-boy in Wall Street for $20. You'd go much farther. No matter how well you do your work a publisher will let you go before he'll raise your salary, knowing that some confidence man in tough lines can be picked...
...Passed a bill to remove the railway surcharge on Pullman car tickets...
Reports from Detroit stated that the Ford Motor Co. is now selling its cars practically at cost, and that the company's profits come from the sale of spare parts, freight charges and byproducts and from interest accruing upon bank balances and derived from securities. This statement, if accurate, goes to show that Ford car prices cannot well be reduced further, at least under present conditions. The future policy of the Company is bound to be influenced by Mr. Ford's reaction to the possibility of paying a perfectly enormous income tax. Heretofore, this has been readily avoided...