Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...further search revealed that a terrific struggle had taken place, for hairpins, pieces of a broken pearl necklace and other jewels, and, most ominous of all, an empty cartridge case were found beside the car...
...Belt. If Henry Ford can take time enough off from supervision of his new motor car, he can see a new playwright* thumbing his nose at him (both hands), wiggling & waggling his fingers. Would Mr. Ford be interested? Many people thought not. He might see himself (unmistakably, although he is called simply "The Old Man") facing a revolt of his workmen with nine months' starvation before them as the works shut down. Previously they have been deadened to sub-mediocrity by the ceaseless sameness of their years of labor; finally, militia marches them to jail. There is also some...
...contention of the President. The last available figures registered a decline of 11% which Wall Street considered hardly small. "The roads are doing about the same amount of business as last year," was another finding of the President. They are not, pointed out the brokers, for freight car loadings thus far have decreased 4½%. The Coolidge reference that "business is better than it has ever been" was also contrasted with the fact that the record of 1926 was better...
...concerns other than his own. He could turn his attention to lines of" manufacturing other than automobiles. He could take a financial loss for a time which would be large in actuality, but small relatively, and still remain . . . the richest man in the world. He could sell a million cars next year at $100 less than cost per car. Such a program . . . would make a very small net difference in the total value of Mr. Ford's estate...
...feels for Felix Nawn. She marries him for martyrdom and her conflict continues; now it is between , her longing for Roger Dallenger and the old torturous instinct to protect the weaknesses of Felix. When Felix learns that the theft which he committed so that he could buy her a car is going to be exposed, he finds the tardy courage to commit suicide. Roger, about to propose to another girl, hears of his death and the story reaches its unnecessarily happy conclusion. Despite the weakening of the last 100 pages, the adolescent anguish of Sheilah Milter is so acutely albeit...