Word: central
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Central Square--"Hard to Get" with Dorothy Mackail...
...Central Square--"Hard to Get" with Dorothy Mackail...
...vegetable market. Last week, pondering his own potency, the great Roy Mukerji Das sent a letter to officials of the Calcutta Markets Committee: "Honored Gentlemen: "Herewith I make application to erect at my own expense a life-sized marble statue of the undersigned in the centre of the Calcutta Central Market. It is my intention to engage a leading British or English sculptor to depict me seated among my vegetables and holding a prize cabbage in one hand (left) and a giant carrot in the other (right). "Your obedient servant, Roy Mukerji Das." The startled Markets Committee, unable to think...
...more momentously, sent its stock from a low of $31.75 in 1925 to a high of $514 this year.† Since then he has been buying parts manufacturers - Lycoming Manufacturing Co. (automobile and aviation engines), Columbia Axle Co., Duesenberg Inc. (motor cars, submarine and speedboat motors), Limousine Body Co., Central Manufacturing Co. (bodies) - and now the Stinson Aircraft Corp. There have been no direct mergers of these enterprises, but a consolidation of their activities as subsidiaries to the Cord Corp., $29,000,000 holding company which Mr. Cord created last summer...
...Central Square--"The Dance of Life...