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...words Henry Ford has always been determined "to get the price of an automobile down to where the public can buy it." In 39 years of business he has made over 20,000,000 automobiles, the cheapest to be bought in the U. S. But his plants have not turned out a car since early December...
Swart as a Greek, this compact little Auvergnat (son of a village butcher in Auvergne, south-central France) was a Senator of no party, an Independent. The public neither knew that he always wears a white wash tie (cheapest and unfading) nor cared to figure out that his name spells itself backward as well as forward. Addicted to scowling, didactic (he once taught school), possessed of a mellow but unexciting voice, identified with no conspicuous cause or movement, Senator Laval was also too young to be noticeable in France in January 1931. He was only 47 and France likes...
...ends with a disturbing chapter on conflicting divorce laws, the uncertain validity of many divorces. Part Two gives a summary of divorce laws in each State, in the popular divorce mills of France, Mexico, Cuba, Sweden. If you want to find out in what State divorce is cheapest, where it can be had most quickly, where a man can get alimony, when a woman cannot, when a divorce is not a divorce, when parents are deprived of the custody of the children-these and many another nice question are answered in Getting a Divorce. In South Carolina, though...
Smallest, Cheapest. It took Bert Hinkler 15½-days, cost him $250 to fly an 875-lb. Avro Avian from London to Australia three years ago. One Charles Butler completed the flight last week for $170 in a Comper Swift, supposedly the tiniest airplane in the world (weight about 500 lb.). Wearing carpet slippers for comfort, carrying a tomahawk for protection in case of a forced landing, Pilot Butler flew the 11,500 mi. in 9 days, 1 hr., 32 min., beating by about an hour the record of Charles William Anderson Scott...
...nation of staggering dyspeptics, all afflicted with cirrhosis of the liver. Legalize whiskey, make it easy to obtain, and you will have a temperate nation and a civilized one. That may sound like plain speaking, but it's the truth." Before the War and Prohibition, only the cheapest and rawest of whiskey could be bought for a nickel a drink. It was freshly distilled, acrid grain alcohol, diluted with water and colored with caramel. It contained poisonous fusel oils, seared the stomach, appealed only to the poorest of dipsomaniacs...