Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week. Contentedly, masterfully, President Wilbert J. Austin of Cleveland's famed Austin Co. (engineers and builders) turned from his glowing globe to speak crisply of his biggest, most distant deal. "Soviet Russia has adopted the method any large industrial concern in this country would use in a like undertaking," said Mr. Austin, slim, alert, decisive. "It has sent out its engineers to make a survey of the latest and best methods of doing what the country wants done. "Following this research the job was to find an organization that could do the work. Evidently the American idea...
...only Austin engineers will go to Austingrad and all the actual assembling and construction on the spot will be done by Russians. From the founding of the company in 1904 it has sloganed: "Undivided Responsibility"-the idea that every phase of constructing a factory, an airport or a city like Austingrad should be covered by a single contract, the company to be responsible for everything...
...This is no conflict between Moslem and Jew; this is simply an uprising of lawlessness and disorder, whatever its motive may be. So far as we are concerned it is not a question of Moslem or Jew, Christian or nonChristian. It isn't a question like that...
...General Overseer Voliva, last week was a bad week for an invasion. Stanch fundamentalist, he believes the world "is square and flat like a sheet of paper," offers $1,000 to anyone who can disprove him. When the Graf Zeppelin started he predicted dire calamity awaited it. Informed that it had docked safely in Friedrichshafen, he sulked and refused to issue a statement. Smart Sister Locy was quick to take advantage of this. As a prime Voliva-baiting tactic she nightly challenged him to debate the earth's shape...
...Dearborn's Mayor Clyde E. Ford revealed that his second cousin, Detroit's manufacturer Henry Ford, had offered a home for the garbage of Detroit and vicinity. His plan: to reduce garbage to grease, fuel and fertilizers at the Ford plant. Turning garbage into grease may sound to inexperts like catching mumps to cure measles, but to the Detroit city fathers it means a saving of several million dollars. The city will collect the garbage, deliver it to the Ford reduction plant; all further costs will come out of the Ford pocket. A Ford-operated garbage-to-grease plant...