Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cortege, which was led by members of his Leipzig student corps, bearing his student cap, which now lies with him in his grave. The funeral's pace was set by the dull thudding "Death March" from Gö;tterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods*), interrupted by low, whining air planes from which whipped taut black streamers. One automobile was in the procession, that of Widow Stresemann. Led by grizzled President von Hindenburg, who left the sad line at the Foreign Office, other mourners stalked solemnly afoot to the graveyard...
...Last week, armed with orders from the Italian Department of the Interior (Italy's Department of the Interior: Benito Mussolini), black-shirted, truncheon-swinging Fascist Militia raided bookstores, bundled all editions of the works of Gorky, Gogol, Dostoievski, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, and even Jack London into vans. Official reason: "Low-priced editions of these works have injured the sale of books by modern Italian writers. They often contain seed for Communist propaganda...
Director Dr. Charles Greeley Abbott of the Smithsonian Institution has worked on sun engines. There is one, the Eaneas, working at low efficiency at Pasadena, Calif. At Meadi, near Cairo, Egypt, the Shumann engine produces 60 h.p. Its reflectors cover an acre. If an efficient and practical sun engine can be built, its sun source of energy is not only free but stupendous in quantity. The energy falling on a square mile of earth on a bright sunny day with a clear atmosphere is equivalent to two or three million horsepower. According to Dr. Abbott the sun energy reaching...
...management of the Auburn Automobile Co. in 1924 when it was building obsolescent cars and losing money. He reorganized manufacturing processes, designed new models,* perked up the sales force. Since 1926 he has made Auburn show a yearly increasing profit, and, even more momentously, sent its stock from a low of $31.75 in 1925 to a high of $514 this year.† Since then he has been buying parts manufacturers - Lycoming Manufacturing Co. (automobile and aviation engines), Columbia Axle Co., Duesenberg Inc. (motor cars, submarine and speedboat motors), Limousine Body Co., Central Manufacturing Co. (bodies) - and now the Stinson Aircraft...
...from its year's high. But of all the badly hit motors, the worst hit was Chrysler. The stock had a year's high of 135, sold last week down to 52. Before the worst break, Walter P. Chrysler observed that he could see no reason for low prices in automobile stocks, considering current automobile productions and sale. Last week Mr. Chrysler pointed out that nine months' earnings per share were $5.50 (compared to $7.03 for twelve months of 1928). Meanwhile automotive bears talked of competition, saturation, production figures weighted by disproportionate Ford and Chevrolet output...