Word: doings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because Germany's great aircraft builder Dr. Claude Dornier frankly told the right U. S. industrial leaders last spring that he needed money to expand his manufacturing plants at Friedrichshafen, General Motors' President Alfred Pritchard Sloan last month went over to Friedrichshafen with a staff of engineers. They...
An exigent early stop is Friedrichshafen where he must meet Dr. Dornier before the German leaves for Manhattan where, the middle of next month, he must confer with the directors of Dornier Corp. of America and help them get started manufacturing his monster seaplanes. At the Friedrichshafen meeting the German...
"Next!" say the barbers. "What next?" ask their clients, amazed at the number of things an up-to-date barber can do to willing subjects-haircuts, shaves, shampoos, massages, tonics, vibrations, bobs, curls, waves, electric treatments.
Actor Smith. "As late as 1916, when I was sheriff of New York, the parish needed funds, so we produced Boucicault's The Shaughraun in the basement of the church. I played Corry Kinchela. the villain. . . . The hero was played by James J. Walker, now Mayor of the City...
Thurston is now Houdini. He describes his tricks, but never explains them. His most sensational "illusion" was chopping off a friend's head. Because women fainted he never repeated it. He is contemptuous of Oriental "magic." Out of three thousand fakirs he examined in India, not one had even...