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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swimming: 550-yd. free style-Ray Ruddy, New York A. C., 6:35; in New Haven, Conn. 600-yd. free style-Ray Ruddy, 7:13; in New Haven, Conn. 800-yd. free style-Ray Ruddy, 9:451/5; in New Haven, Conn. Automobiles: A measured mile-Major H. O. D. Seagrave in the "Golden Arrow"; 15.41 sec. average (231.3624 m.p.h.); at Daytona Beach...
...himself, ruminates many a U. S. man-in-the-street, dazzled by world-wide Fords, by General Motors balance sheets, by Chrysler skyscrapers. But such envious persons might well harken to the story of David D. Buick. Mr. Buick was in on the automobile ground floor. He was working on his Buick before the old Ford Motor Co. was incorporated. But no millionaire became Mr. Buick. No break got he. He died in Detroit last week, obscure, impoverished. And when he went to his work, he walked...
...d only got into the automobile business on the ground floor, what a millionaire I'd be today! If I'd started in like Ford and Dodge, I'd be sailing a yacht around the world right now. Well, they were lucky birds, those guys. They got a break...
...fifty million dollar increase over 1927.* But, as everyone could foretell, he was not reelected to the Board, because, after the most famed proxy fight in recent business history, he controlled only 2,954,986 shares whereas Lawyer W. W. Aldrich, brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr., controlled...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: John D. Rockefeller Jr., sojourning last week in Jerusalem, said: "My father is like Egypt-he has always good weather. At 89 he is still stronger than I am."* Alfred P. Friedrich von Tirpitz, erstwhile famed and defamed Lord High Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, now living in retirement at Feldafing on the shores of Starnberger Lake in Bavaria, near Munich, said: "Oh, well, perhaps I've outlived the times...