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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stores, 364 are 5? & 10? 147 are 25? to $1. In 1028 they sold $147,465,448 worth of merchandise. Mr. Kresge, however, has not forgotten boyhood days on a Pennsylvania farm when he rose at 4:30 a. m. and worked till dark. His clothing is still inexpensive, and he will search long for a lost golf ball. He is a solid, round, quiet man except when he is aroused against the Big Demon Rum or the Little Devil Tobacco or one of the many other worldly evils in combatting which the Kresge fortune has been freely expended...
...Motors, Inc. (a Delaware corporation, capitalized at $5,000,000, all privately subscribed) expects to build 500 Ruxtons by July 1 and 12,000 during 1929. Its president, A. M. Andrews, is a director in Hupmobile Motor Car Corp., its vice president and designer, W. J. Muller, is an engineer with the Edward G. Budd Manfacturing Co. (auto bodies), and one of the directors is Vice President Frederick W. Gardner of Gardner Motor Co., Inc. This personnel, coupled with the announcement that the car will be built in Cleveland and in St. Louis plants, resulted in the surmise that...
...therefore soon had a violin handed to him. But his small hands did not well adapt themselves to the instrument and when to the violin was added a piano, Engineer Kolster, rebellious, entered the Cambridge Manual Training School where he "prepped" for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While still attending M. I. T., he got a job as assistant to the Cambridge city engineer. Most of his time was spent in driving stakes, but Engineer Kolster was proud of his position and his profession. When John Stone Stone, one of U. S. radio's experimental pioneers, offered Mr. Kolster...
Twelve of the 33 finished. Ray Keech of Philadelphia won. His Simplex Piston Ring Special averaged 97.583 m. p. h. This was slow driving for Winner Keech, who in 1928 held the world's speed record by moving 207.55 m. p. h. at Daytona Beach, Fla. But it was not easy, for he took the notoriously low-banked, treacherous Indianapolis turns without lowering his throttle. His skilled chauffering won him about...
Comedian Raymond Hitchcock opened last week in Chicago in a new play, Your Uncle Dudley. After a few days he had a heart attack, was hospitalized. The play was cancelled for the season. Said Comedian Hitchcock: "Just say that I'm fighting to get that breath back...