Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kitchen:" Fancy-colored kitchen gear is worth at the most a footnote to an ART article on art-in-the-home or a BUSINESS article on department store operations. And are you sure that Macy's and Wanamaker's were the first to sell them? For years I have seen them in "gift shoppes" run by loathsome women with tricky ideas...
Soon the Columbia developed engine trouble, was forced to glide down into a field gashed by a deep ditch. The ditch fouled the landing gear, tripped the plane which then buried its nose in the ground, its engine wrecked, its wings twisted. Miraculously, no one was injured...
Such a car, tested, proved that it could ascend a 20% grade, accelerating briskly, stop in the middle of the grade, then proceed again without necessity of manual gear shifting...
This is because-Ford has ceased firing until he can get his big gun trained on the shifted target of public opinion. It has moved in the direction of racy lines, snappy colors, manual gear shift, speed. It will be 1928 before Ford has tested his product sufficiently well to allow it to re-enter into the conflict...
Married. Gustave Maurice Heck-sher, 43, real estate broker, son of August Hecksher, capitalist; to Luella Gear Chandler, 28, onetime comedienne in Queen High, musical comedy, and onetime wife of rich Byron Chandler. Mr. Hecksher was divorced last year in Paris by Louise Vanderhoff...