Word: g
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Young's* international bank is surely a wow. The rest of us plowboys and sons of mechanics were trying to figure out just why a private American individual was mixing in foreign national squabbles in perfect busybody fashion when we tumbled to the fact that Young, as a G. E. tai-kun† is just the gerant* *; of his master, J. Pierrepont Morgan,†† of private gangplank fame. The latter is certain to be found hovering where dollars are thickest-like buzzards over carrion-voilà tout...
...look at this Young scheme. Germany offers 50. Allies ask 100. Young says G. will give 50 and the A will get 100. Who pays the difference? The I. B* * * from profits. Who pays the profits? The customers. Who are the customers? The bondbuyers. Who are the bondbuyers...
Ways & Means. In a back-room political conference, the G. O. P. members of the House Ways & Means Committee met the revolt against the Tariff Bill by holding additional secret hearings last week. Before them appeared Congressmen from farm states to state the price (i.e., upward revision on pet commodities) they would demand to support the measure on the House floor. Patiently the committee heard them ask for greater duties on casein, canned tomatoes, potatoes, live cattle, hides, blackstrap, dairy products...
Announcements of the General Motors-Fokker deal stressed the fact that Anthony H. G. Fokker would continue in charge of Fokker engineering and design. It was back in 1911 that Mynheer Anthony Fokker, then 21, decided that he wanted to fly. Having no plane, he built...
...looked straight down at. Generally speaking, there are two main types of outline-a long, narrow ellipse hardly wider at the centre than at the ends, and a short, pear-shaped figure with the wide part at the back. Long and narrow were the heads of Theodore Roosevelt, Robert G. Ingersoll, Victor Herbert. Short and pear-shaped were the heads of Ulysses S. Grant, Charles Frohman, General Phil Sheridan...