Word: exit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After this second exit from G. M., Mr. Durant started Durant Motors Inc., speculated his way back to wealth and public favor. Stock in the new company soared from $13 in 1921 to $84 in 1923. But for the last few years Durant Motors has reported steady deficits and the stock has slipped to almost nominal figures. When, a year and a half ago, Mr. Durant resigned as chairman and put younger executives in charge it seemed that he was through with the automobile industry. But last week Durant stock (on the New York Curb) flared up from...
...preacher (Christian Disciples) in California, Missouri and Kansas, but retired from pulpiteering proper in 1908, went to Arizona "as a matter of health insurance." There he still lives, in a Spanish-Mission house near Tucson. He has recently (February) returned from Hawaii, where he worked on Exit, fished for mahimahi from a sampan. Twice married, ex-Preacher Wright has three children, all issue of the first wife...
Last week the trouble started. Students in the capital city of La Paz held a huge open-air demonstration against the Siles-Kundt regime. General Kundt met this in the only way he knew. Police blocked every exit from the square, machine guns wheeled into position. Under their hideous rattle 100 screaming boys fell never to rise again. As many more were wounded. The Government did its best to suppress news of the riot but Bolivians had seen the bodies in the streets. The country was aroused. General Kundt posted loyal troops on the hills above the capital, threatened...
...When he was finished he bought a cigar and a form sheet for that afternoon's horse races at Washington Park. Smoking and reading he walked toward the Illinois Central railroad station, entered the crowded pedestrian tunnel passing under Michigan Avenue. As he neared the tunnel's exit, another man stepped behind him, thrust a "belly-gun" (sawed-off revolver) close to the back of his head, fired a .38-calibre bullet through his brain. With the cigar still clenched in his teeth, the form sheet still clutched in his hand, the short, stocky man plunged forward...
...robbed Tiffany's of $6,000 worth of jeweled rings in this wise. At the store she asked that a salesman take the rings to show her mother before she bought them. She gave the address. At once she hastened there and rented a furnished apartment with two exit doors. When the salesman, Christopher Fisher, with Tiffany's 25 years, appeared at one door, the woman took the rings from him "to show mother'' in her bedroom, walked out the other exit...