Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus bitterly did grey, puttery Charles Edgar Duryea, acknowledged father of the U.S. automobile, sum up his career a few years back. On April 19, 1892 he first scooted his pace-setting gasoline buggy along leafy Taylor Street in Springfield, Mass, to give the four-billion-dollar automobile industry its first real push. His contraption was pretty primitive. It grew out of a love for horses ("Think of it. We have no tails to dock, no checkreins, no whips, no blinders, no sore backs") and at one stage in the gasoline buggy's development he even considered building...
...January day in 1919, the 83-year-old publisher of the Portland Oregonian, ten days ill with grippe, had himself carried to the east bay of his grey stone mansion on Portland's Imperial Heights, to look once more across the city where he had made his fortune. As the late winter sunshine streamed through the window, Henry Lewis Pittock knew that his time was short, knew that his keenest regret was to leave to other hands the great daily he had founded 58 years before. Next night he died, and Portlanders learned that his $7,894,778.33 estate...
...July, in the Vélodrome d'Hiver and the Parc-des-Princes, gathered 75,000 young people whose berets and uniforms, naming torches and fluttering banners made them look like any horde of young Communists, Nazis or Fascists. But they knelt before a cross, and the good grey Archbishop of Paris, Jean Cardinal Verdier, said to them: "You have sworn to effect that miracle upon which in our timidity we had no longer counted." The 75,000 were Jocists, members of JOC (Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne-Christian Working Youth), celebrating the tenth anniversary...
...potential debunkers.- Last week the American Druggist, Hearst-owned monthly that goes to 43,000 of the 58,000 retail druggists in the U. S., sought public support for the most ambitious counterattack to date on what it called "sensational, destructive propaganda" of consumer groups. Conceived by elegant, tweedy, grey-mustached Editor Louis J. F. Moore, the Druggist's campaign is based on a frank appeal to buyers to put their trust in the biggest ads. Keynote: "WHO'S A GUINEA PIG? . . . The real guinea pigs are the people who experiment . . . take chances . . . with products which...
George MacDonald and Henry L. Doherty have long had much in common. They have known each other 30 years. Both got rich in utilities. Both have grey-white hair, blue-grey eyes, and are the same height. George is 63, Henry is 68. George says they have been so close that he used to get Henry's love letters, Henry his business letters. Last week George and Henry had a new common denominator- Florida and Bahama real estate...