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Workers told off pickets to guard the plants against sabotage, were fed by wives and Communist committees. This superb idea spread fast. Hotchkiss (automobiles, machine guns), Amiot (airplanes) and Hispano (airplane engines, armaments, munitions) granted the demands. Some munitions manufacturers hurriedly shooed their men out of the plants on forced vacations...
...sale of his records. His widow still gets about $200 per month in royalties. His plaintive voice still yodeled last week from honkytonks in Port-au-Prince, cantinas in Colon, dives in Sidney. Lately Jimmie Rodgers' name was given additional immortality. Compañia Vinícola Hispano Americano of Panama City put a Jimmie Rodgers rum on the market...
Barcelona Water Works to get up fighting pressure. By that time El Siglo was a $4,000,000 bonfire, belching hundreds of feet in air, impossible to extinguish. When firemen were finally able to fight, the best they could do was wet down nearby buildings including El Banco Hispano Colonial from which cash, securities and gold had been hastily removed...
...chases her husband home, shoots him, leaves him being nursed by the first Mrs. Legendre. When Legendre, remarried to his first wife, is traveling with her in Europe, they catch one more glimpse of Lil. Gay and more pleased with herself than she should be, she has an Hispano-Suiza, a racehorse, a Marquis, in addition to her chauffeur, Albert...
Like all Fords, the big new plane is all-metal. Its wings spread no ft. From snout-like nose to ear-shaped rudder it measures 80 ft., the fuselage suggesting somewhat the flying-fish appearance of the Curtiss Condor. Inside each wing is built a 715-hp. Hispano-Suiza engine. The third engine, of 1,100 hp., is mounted atop the centre. Four passenger compartments are furnished with two standard Pullman sections each. A smoking compartment could accommodate additional passengers. There are two lavatories, a galley with gas stove...