Word: cot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joining a fire company to get a free bed. At 53 he was making nearly $100,000 a year and had been groomed for the Presidency. At 27 he was manager, cashier, janitor and night watchman of a bank at Malone, Tex. (pop. 150) where he slept on a cot in the corridor. At 47 he was president of Chicago's second biggest bank, the First National (present assets $643,000,000), and lived in a 14-room house on Barry Ave. All Mel Traylor carried from a crude Kentucky boyhood to fame & fortune in Chicago was a sinewy...
...manager. But it was in the automobile business that Chrysler first proved his ability as an executive as well as an operating man. In 1912 Charles W. Nash, who had succeeded Durant as head of General Motors, put him in charge of Buick. For two years Chrysler kept a cot in the factory. Buick's production jumped from 40 to over 500 cars a day. When Durant made his comeback into General Motors, Chrysler became vice president in charge of GM operations. But Durant and Chrysler quarreled. In 1920 Willys- Overland which had just gone on the post...
...frantic parents the train's engineer gibbered that he had had his bell clanging, his whistle wide open, that he had not seen the bus until it had turned sharply almost under the locomotive wheels. Lying cut and bruised on a cot in a Baptist parsonage, old D. R. Niles hoped that he, too, would...
Reward. French Flyers Codos & Rossi made a world's record distance flight last August from New York to Syria (5,700 mi.), in anticipation of a 1,000,000 fr. prize announced by France's youthful Air Minister Pierre Cot. Having mortgaged themselves up to the hilt to raise some 750,000 fr. for expenses, Heroes Codos & Rossi learned last week that the Government, economizing, had changed its mind about the prize...
...French army biplanes roared across the Sahara on a null tour of French African territory which began fortnight ago, will last for another month. Possibly inspired by Italy's formidable demonstration in the Balbo flight, France's air cruise was ordered by bespectacled Air Minister Pierre Cot. The full complement contained 30 planes which started from Istres Airdrome in southern France. One cracked up in Spain, another in Morocco. At desolate Bidon V (Gastank No. 5) three more planes had to hang back with engine trouble, caught up again in Upper Senegal...