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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contractees were the Boeing Airplane Co. of Seattle; Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. Inc. of Garden City, L. I.; Douglas Aircraft Inc., of Santa Monica, Calif.: Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America, of Hassbrouck Heights, N. J.; Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. of Baltimore...
While Mr. Ford was shipping duty-free Fordsons, General American Tank Car Corp. was employing another standard way of scaling tariff walls. This barrier, however, was not U. S. but German. Reluctant to pay the high duties collected in Germany on U. S. goods, the Tank Car company, á la General Motors, took over a German car company and organized it as a subsidiary...
Latest arrival in popular priced eight cylinder cars was last week announced by Studebaker Corp., which will make a Dictator Eight in addition to its Dictator Six. It will be a companion car to the company's President and Commander Eights. Price range (six models) is from $1185 to $1435. Said Studebaker's President Erskine: "Motor world today wants eights. . . . In 1928 only 10% of passenger car engines were eights . . . today...
Florenz ("Follies") Ziegfeld Jr. let it be known last week that he and Cinemagnate Samuel Goldwyn had formed the Ziegfeld-Goldwyn Corp., which would start next January to produce "talkies" with the Ziegfeld tang and glamor, the Goldwyn experience. Said Mr. Ziegfeld: "I am going to do for the screen what I have done for the stage." Of the stage he said: "There is too much dirt and nakedness in revues nowadays, and the public is about fed up on them. . . . The sketches now used as black-outs? are the sort that in pre-Prohibition days found their origin...
...late Waldorf- Astoria hotel. He bet on anything, gambled in stocks, grain and cotton by day, at poker and faro by night. Starting as a farmer boy, he made and lost several seven-figure fortunes before he was 40. John Pierpont Morgan considered him unsafe as U. S. Steel Corp. director. On a visit to St. Charles he once gave a boyhood friend a $25,000 farm in return for a 5¢ cigar. In 1911, at the age of 56, he died in Paris...