Word: marmon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pays special taxes of $417,500,000 ($89,000,000 more than the amount of all taxes that U. S. railroads pay). Truck manufacturers represented were Autocar, Baker-Raulang, Brockway, Diamond T, Divco-Twin, Dodge, Federal, Ford, Four Wheel Drive, Fruehauf Trailers, General Motors, International Harvester, Mack, Marmon-Herrington, Pak-Age-Car, Reo, Sterling, Studebaker, Truck-tor, Walker, Walter and White. Motor-makers were Aircooled Motors Corp., Buda, Continental, Cummins, Hercules, and Waukesha. Represented, too, were some 75 body, wheel, accessory and fuel companies...
...progressed so far that she was taken the 60 miles to San Francisco several times a week to study with Kathleen Parlow, who suggested the first trip East. Indomitable Mrs. Edwards was easy to convince. Money was scarce but there was the 10-year-old, seven-passenger Marmon and Son Carl, 16, to drive it. The Edwards motored East to the Berkshire Festival, motored back again as far as Lovelock, Nev., where the Marmon caught fire. Of the baggage nothing was saved except Marjorie's violin...
...fought on all five fronts, became Chief of Staff of the A. E. F. air service, one of the youngest men in U. S. Army history to win a colonelcy. Awarded many a medal, he served at the Peace Conference, quit the Army in 1920 to work for Nordyke & Marmon Co. Joining Stutz Motor Car Co. in 1925, he became president in 1929, resigned last August...
...number of truck makers are specialists. Four Wheel Drive Auto Co.'s product is popular with municipalities for road building and snow removal. Marmon-Herrington also makes four-wheel drives, largely for the Army. Hug, another contractors' and municipal truck, is made in Highland, Ill. Few people suspect that Yale & Towne (locks) is a builder of electric trucks...
Married. Pauline Frederick, 50 stage & film actress; and Colonel Joseph A. Marmon, 58, commander of the 6th Infantry, U. S. A.; in Scarsdale, N. Y. An elaborate military welcome was arranged at Governors Island, Colonel Marmon's post. It was his first marriage. Miss Frederick's fifth. Her previous husbands: Frank M. Andrews, Manhattan architect (divorced); Willard Mack, famed actor-playwright (divorced); Dr. Charles Rutherford, Seattle doctor (divorced); Hugh Chisholm Leighton, Los Angeles hotelman who obtained an annulment on charges of fraud and non-consummation...