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Coupe-4-cyl. FORD CHEVROLET 52 CHRYSLER WHIPPET STAR STAR $550 $625 $870 $755 steel Fisher Hayes-Hunt steel pyroxylin Duco Duco paint steel spoke steel disc wood wood 4 2 2 4 balloon balloon balloon balloon 104" 103" 106" 101 H" Triplex plate plate plate hydraulic none none Gabriel...
Directors of the Underwood Typewriter Co. last week asked their stockholders to meet Dec. 15 to approve merger with the Elliott-Fisher Co. (general office equipment) as the Underwood-Elliott-Fisher Co. The new corporation will match Remington Rand Inc. created last spring from Rand-Kardex (visible indexes), Baker-Vawter (filing cabinets) and Dalton Adding Machine (TIME, Feb. 28). It is possible that Underwood-Elliott-Fisher may round out their office equipment business by inducing Burroughs Adding Machines, International Business Machines and Yawman & Erbe (filing cabinets) to join them...
...PROHIBITION MANIA-Clarence Darrow & Victor S. Yarros-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Using the much-heralded dry arguments of Professor Irving Fisher of Yale (advanced in Prohibition at its Worst) as a tackling dummy, Authors Yarros (Chicago journalist) & Darrow (famed Chicago lawyer) endeavor to prove that the 18th amendment should be considered an outmoded though undeniably humorous fantasy. Practically all of Professor Fisher's conclusions, 38 of his charts connecting the dry law with the decrease in drunkenness and juvenile delinquency, the disappearance of disorderly houses, the reduction of deaths due to alcoholism, are demolished with an angry despatch. The book...
...Governor Fisher. The Labor conference had invited Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania to come and address it on the subject of state-appointed coal-&-iron police. Governor Fisher declined. It was unfortunate for Governor Fisher that he had to decline because that gave one-time (1917-21) Governor Gifford Pinchot a chance to dwell on the subject in his stead. Mr. Pinchot is no political friend of his fellow-Republican, Governor Fisher...
...Alternative choices might have been Professors Frank William Taussig or William Zebina Ripley of Harvard, Irving Fisher of Yale, Edwin Walter Kemmerer of Princeton, or Murray Shipley Wildman of Stanford, to name but five...