Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, melodiously, did the Ward Line christen the ships of the profitable Havana trade. Year after year, they have plied comfortably and euphoniously between Cuba and New York, carrying many a lodge brother, Greek-letter man, Pan-American conferee and others to whom Havana has offered, since 1919, increasingly attractive facilities for convivial conventions...
Early in August, Mr. Chrysler brought out another new car, called the De Soto. Many a man was a little confused for the moment as to whether the De Soto and the Plymouth were new makes by Chrysler or new Chrysler models. But the Chrysler models-"65," "75" and "Imperial 80"-continued to be advertised distinct from De Soto and Plymouth...
Thus, with a large gesture, Walter P. Chrysler ended twelve months of extraordinary activity. From a motor man with one product, he had become one of the chief U. S. industrialists. Undeniably, he had been the outstanding businessman of the year...
...expressed gratitude by not forgetting. Three months later the new Colorado & Southern shop foreman at Trinidad, Colo., was a tireless, driving, hardheaded youngster named Walter Chrysler. Other railroads heard, needed, beckoned. After a bit the superintendent of motive power of the whole Chicago & Great Western system was a new man named Chrysler. "W. P." they called him, aged...
...American Locomotive Co. at Pittsburgh needed a works manager. The Great Western's superintendent of motive power, well-paid though he was, concluded that, without executive experience, a mechanical man can get just so far and no further in railroading. Moreover, building engines for sale interested him more than buying engines and keeping them running until they died of old age. He took the Pittsburgh job, at a big drop in salary. The salary did not stay down long...