Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reparations Commission-Owen D. Young, John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas William Lament, Thomas Nelson Perkins-to inform their government what, as private citizens, they had accomplished at Paris. First they drove up to the Department of State in a taxicab, went in to call upon Secretary Stimson. After a long wait their taxi-driver grew impatient, suspected his four fares of stealing away to escape the metre charge, went in and told a guard they were "dead beats." Emerging after two hours, the four Reparation Commissioners crossed the street to the White House to lunch with President Hoover. About the table...
...Dillingham hospitality (long a bachelor, he married Miss Louise Gaylord of Chicago) that he is known as the "host of Hawaii." Few able visitors arrive in the Islands without a letter...
...trust laws. Foreign producers, however, have few inhibitions, not only in combining corporations but in regulating markets, production, prices. Thus last week a group of British and South American tin men formed the British-American Corp. with the avowed purpose of stabilizing the price of tin at ?265 a long ton ($1,284). This price would be the equivalent of about 57 1/2 a pound as compared to last week's National Metal Exchange (Manhattan) quotations of around 45?. The one million pound capital of British-American Corp. will be privately subscribed, subscribers including Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, Director...
When, last month, Aviators James Kelly and R. L. Robbins remained aloft over Fort Worth, Tex., for 172 hrs. 32 mins. 1 sec., great was public interest. No motored vehicle, land, sea or air, had ever before run so long without stopping. Last week, however, two Roosevelt stock sedans drove ground and round the Indianapolis motor speedway without stopping, reached, then far passed the airplane record. One stopped after 231 hrs. and 41 min. The other passed the 300 hour mark, kept going. Drivers (who worked in shifts) included Aviators Kelly and Robbins, who thus helped to break on land...
...most valued asset, exclusive right to the Bosch name in the U. S. Inventor Bosch contended that his name did not become the property of American Bosch Corp. in 1917 since he had an agreement with the original company that they might use his name only so long as they bought their materials from the German parent plant. But no written agreement to this effect had been made. Inventor Bosch's contention collapsed. Nor could he protest the original seizure of the Bosch stock, because of a restraining post-War German-American treaty. Under this treaty Germany agreed that...