Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegations from colleges in Boston and vicinity will ride to Poland Springs in a special car or in busses. Poland Springs is the leading winter resort in New England, and weather permitting, there will be a full program of sports...
...paroxysms of joy. Tears made little canyons down her cheeks and spots on Mr. Hollisheimer's cuff. Finally she was reduced to a jellylike mass, from which issued increasingly faint gurgles as a gun went off in someone's face, or a man got run over by a trolley car. Mr. Hollisheimer gently closed her eyes, and she breathed more easily. Mr. Sever thinks he made a mistake. She should have been allowed to laugh herself to death...
...built a $100,000 steel mill at St. Louis; Sterling Products Co. of Wheeling, W. Va., makers of Castoria and Dr. Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin and other proprietary medicines that give yearly profits of $2,500,000. Ford Credit. "I'd say that the Ford Motor Car Co. as a credit proposition equals the United States Steel Corp., the Standard Oil Co., General Electric arid General Motors."-Mr. Prentiss...
...General Motors does not want to step on your foot," said General Motors' Chairman Pierre S. duPont to Henry Ford in 1921, according to onetime Ford Sales Manager Norval A. Hawkins. Salesman Hawkins testified further: "Mr. duPont knew that if Mr. Ford wanted to he could sell his car so cheap as to make Chevrolet high priced." In 1912 the Ford company could have sold cars at cost and still earned $1,325,000 or 66% on its then capitalization of $2,000,000. Today the company can sell cars at cost and profit from the sale of parts...
...then hopped into his car and canvassed the state for moral support as well as program advertising. Local gentility encouraged but the potential box-office patrons remained contemptuous. The first rehearsal was held last fall. In order to allay suspicion such more popular numbers as "The Merry Wives of Windsor," "Peer Gynt," and Sousa's "Gridiron Club March" were promised...