Word: hired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan Motor Vehicles Act, making motor vehicles for hire subject to regulations for Common Carriers, was held to be an unreasonable burden on Interstate Commerce...
...often employed as paid drivers and are taught this kind of work at our institution. Some institutions for the deaf do teach automobile repairing. Many deaf people drive automobiles with safety and skill, many of them our own graduates. I understand a few of them have driven automobiles for hire; but, in our own institution, we do not encourage students to own automobiles, as we feel that it is too great a drain on their resources. Nor do we teach automobile repairing or driving. A number of our students have driven their own cars during the summer or driven...
...they have long been at swords' points. When Mr. Mellon issued his tax reduction plan more than a year ago, Mr. Couzens was one of the first to challenge its wisdom. The exchange between the two grew heated and ended by Mr. Couzens' suggesting that they hire a hall, divide the expense and debate for the public. More recently, Senator Couzens revived the controversy by undertaking on behalf of the Senate an investigation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Some days ago, a report from this Senate committee investigation was made public. It charged the Treasury Department with...
Charles Ranlett Flint was born in Thomaston, Me., in 1850. His people had always been shippers; he, looking-for his first job, went to "every shipping office in Manhattan," but no one would hire him. Thereupon he wrote himself a reference, had cards made which declared him to be an. expert dock-clerk, entered Grace & Co., shippers. Quickly he rose, became rich in a time phenomenally short even for that era of expansion. He pounced upon every new idea, helped, with his own funds, to develop the automobile, the submarine, the airplane, the dynamite- gun. Growth, he believed...
...sent if possible by the end of this week to the box chairman. Only groups of either six or 12 couples can make application for boxes, and they must send in both their own names and those of the girls they are bringing. No group of stags can hire a box together...