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...regular business job. Mr. Peek induced General Johnson to resign from the Army in 1919, accompany him to Moline. There as president and vice president they took over Moline Plow Co., set out with high hopes to make millions of their own. But they had picked a dead cock in the pit. as Mr. Baruch could have told them. Failing to get the financing they had been promised, they were forced to liquidate their company after a few luckless years. General Johnson took a fling alone in the farm implement business while Mr. Peek turned to cornstalks and farm relief...
...busy to study the requirements of the individual student. The result, in instance after instance, is that the Freshman is obliged to get his information from various and sundry unsatisfactory sources: he consults a Senior whom he knows; he listens to the gossip among the more cock-sure of his colleagues; or he gives up the task, and relies on the fates to lead him to the right choice of a schedule...
...last year, but this year what Prohibition took away it has partly given back. Three weeks before beer became legal Owens-Illinois' orders already amounted to 55,000,000 bottles. Last week Owens-Illinois had its 20 plants working at full capacity. What is more. Mr. Levis could cock a snook at technocrats: although with present machinery the output per man per day in his factories is at least 50% greater than it was 13 years ago there were last week more men on Owens-Illinois' payroll than at any time during the booming...
...mate in evidence. On the roof just over the window was a half-finished nest with a pile of unused material beside it. We had a theory that in the spring when the house was building, the mate had been caught and died inside, and that the cock robin was obsessed with the thought of getting inside to look for her, but when we opened the window he shifted his attack to the upper panes. We were forced to the unhappy conclusion that the robin was cuckoo...
Last week the Kansas City cock robin was still pecking at his reflection, had been at it a month...