Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long, courtly document, written out in longhand on glazed paper, was recently filed in a Manhattan court-the last Will and Testament of the late Cleveland H. Dodge, financier, philanthropist. During his lifetime he gave away $40,000,000, mostly to religious causes. He backed Woodrow Wilson in his last two campaigns. An official of the Y. M. C. A., asked for an estimate of his contributions, gasped: "Why, it would take weeks to get those figures together. . . ." Religious foundations had waited expectantly for the will to be filed. If alive he gave such vast sums to God, what would...
...Whereas my honored and revered great-grandfather, Anson G. Phelps, bequeathed to my father $5,000 . . . the income therefrom to be devoted to the spread of the Gospel and to promote the Kingdom of the Redeemer on Earth . . . I bequeath the said sum of $5,000 to my son, Cleveland Earl Dodge ... to be sacredly appropriated as was directed in my grandfather's will...
Henry Ford-and his son-that the U. S. has been looking for its first swarming fleets of aircraft. Extensive experiment was expected to preface the arrival of such fleets, and last week the experimental record, for flights on the Ford freight-and-mail routes between Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago, was announced as follows: Flights attempted .......1,492 Flights completed .......1,467 Miles flown .......295,000 Hours in the air .......3,354 Pounds carried .......1,644,000 Percentage of effectiveness...
Cyrus Stephen Eaton, Nova Scotian, now of Cleveland, worked last week on the $80,000,000 merger of the Central Steel Co. of Massillon, Ohio, and the United Alloy Steel Corp. of Canton, Ohio. Their combined ingot capacity will Approximate 1,400,000 yearly. They will be the sixth largest steel corporation in the U. S., the very largest specializing in alloy steels...
...custom of a monthly magazine called The Mailbag (monthly; published in Cleveland; slogan, "All about direct-mail-advertising") to comment upon or reproduce advertisements which, in the Mailbag's judgement, have emitted a definite sparkle in the thick welter of advertisements-blatant and humble, proud and straining, prosaic and hysterico-lyrical-that fill the public prints. Lately, the Mailbag found a gem. It was in the American Mercury and it advertised that melange of outgrown modes and manners, The Mauve Decade by Thomas Beer (TIME, July 5, BOOKS), not only in the curlicued typefaces of 30 years...