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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pleased was the venerable statesman's much younger wife, the onetime Miss Helena Schilizzi of London, ambitious, vivacious heiress of a rich Greek. She, rumors told, supplies the motivation for her husband's latest grasp at Power...
...Farrell failed to contradict this interesting and plausible theory. German makers were equally discreet, equally silent. But the suspicion grew that in his latest pilgrimage abroad, Mr. Farrell had played a new role. He had been the reverse of a salesman. For once, he had studied, not how to sell more steel in European markets, but how to export less steel, more wisely...
...drawl and heartiness. His fists are big, his temper quick. Four years ago, during a golf course argument, he punched down another player (one Dr. James F. Mitchell of Washington, D. C.) and had to be suspended from the Chevy Chase Club. Senate Democrats respect his courage and vocabulary. Latest to be whipped into order was Alabama's ponderous Heflin, who challenged Senator Robinson's leadership during one of his Pope-baiting tirades (TIME...
Employment. Latest figures on number of employes are 208,228 (total) for General Motors Corp., 115,837 for the Ford Motor Co. (Detroit only...
...sweated in the test furnace room of the Todd Dry Dock Co.; peered at an intricate machine which was busily pulverizing soft coal and blowing it into furnaces. Hitherto, on the experiment freighter Mercer, the coal has been pulverized in one machine, then distributed to three furnaces, but the latest improvement provides each furnace with its own pulverizer and does away altogether with the problem of distribution. The new pulverizer is attached to the door of any furnace. Like a large coffee mill, it grinds the coal until talcum powder would look coarse in comparison; sprays it into the greedy...