Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could comfortably inspect 104 plane models, exhibited by 44 oldtime and 16 freshly organized manufactories. Planes ranged from the tricky little Heath at $975, which only the best of pilots dare handle, to the $67,500 Fokker, for which, with its ornate fittings* Cadillac's President Lawrence P. Fisher just paid $75,000. In between were sturdy one and two-seater open cockpit monoplanes and biplanes. Most models, however, were "closed jobs," built as coupes, sedans, coaches, cabins, buses. All but four planes were single-motored, with Pratt & Whitneys, Wrights, Warners, leBlonds, for the most part.† Exceptions were...
...Roosevelt (8 cylinders, less than $1,000). President A. R. Erskine of Studebaker told stockholders of $4,500,000 earnings, in best first quarter for five years. Continental Motors Corp. (engines) showed sales increases, exclusive of sales to Ford, of 18% over first quarter of 1928. Fisher Bodies (General Motor property) is building a new million-dollar plant. Dodge (now a Chrysler division) shipped 1,892 cars and trucks...
...Fernald '97, Fisher Professor of Natural History to be used in connection with the further investigation of the relic floras of Newfoundland...
...corner of Dunster and South. This prominent person was John Bridge, whose statue now stands so commandingly on the Cambridge Common. Bridge was a public man of ability, serving as selectman, school supervisor, deacon, and court representative. His quaint little house, though remodeled, was demolished only last autumn. Thomas Fisher who built in 1635 was the first resident on the Holyoke-South Street corner. Also, in 1635, William West wood, a town official constructed his house on the spot where Roosevelt was later to live...
...emphasis given denials forecast a deal of large proportions. Thus, last week, no less than three presidents journeyed to Wiesbaden* to sign the contract. They were: the President of General Motors Corp. (Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.); the President of General Motors Export Co. (James David Mooney); the President of Fisher Bodies Corp. (Frederick J. Fisher), chief of the seven money-minting Fisher brothers...