Word: macke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traveling shows to 98 cities in the U. S. and Canada; 3) established a modern valuable art library; 4) published 38 different books and pamphlets; 5) put on many a radio art program; 6) established a cinema museum which is preserving for students such valued films as the first Mack Sennett custard pies, The Birth of a Nation, Sarah Bernhardt as Queen Elizabeth, the first sound picture (Al Jolson's Jazz Singer), Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire. Besides the donations from Miss Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller and others, the Museum acquired few months ago Surrealist Salvador Dali's famed...
...capacity units. White Motor makes a zoo-passenger bus with a twelve-cylinder "pancake" motor (cylinders opposed horizontally instead of in a V), which sells for $16,000. A bus is only one unit in production figures, but $16,000 would buy 25 Chevrolet delivery wagons. A ten-ton Mack truck costs around $8,000 without body, a price which would purchase a sizable fleet of Dodges...
...Mack was founded by John Mack, a Brooklyn stationary engineer who had two brothers in the wagon-building business. The first Mack truck took three years to build, cost $25,000, was a failure. By 1906 Mr. Mack was able to turn out a ten-ton model that worked, and the company has been making heavy-duty trucks ever since. After a series of pre-War mergers, Founder Mack retired with $1,000,000. Somewhat later he stepped off a street car in the company's home town of Allentown, Pa., was run down and killed by a Republic...
...Head of Mack since 1916 has been Alfred J. Brosseau, a Shakespeare student who sometimes makes his lunch on a large red apple and six glasses of water. He built up Mack's commanding position in the heavy-duty field, is official spokesman for the truckmakers as head of the Automobile Manufacturers Association's truck division. In 1925 Mack made $9,400,000, a figure never since equaled, though sales in 1929 were $57,000,000. Last year Mack made...
President since President Bean's death last spring has been ruddy, sociable Robert Fager Black, onetime head of Brockway, onetime vice president of Mack. Hardly had he had time to hang his hat in his new office before he was confronted with a strike, which was peacefully settled after Mr. Black bought the picketers balls, bats and gloves, set them to base-balling in a nearby parking lot. White's Black has not lifted the company out of the red, but he is on record with the prediction that White's 1936 production will top the Wartime...