Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oniy General in U. S. History except Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, Pershing, his work done, is expected to retire now, having completed 14 years with the Commission. Before returning to the U. S. he will model for an equestrian statue the French are erecting at Versailles to commemorate the A. E. F. *Of 78,734 soldiers who died in France, 46,000 have been returned to this country for burial; 3,652 are still missing, 600 are buried at sea. Some 1,700 bodies remain unidentified. It cost the Government $394 to repatriate a dead U. S. soldier from France...
Died-Vivian Burnett, 61, writer, editor, second son of Author Frances Hodgson Burnett for whose famed Little Lord Fauntleroy he was the inspiration and model; in Manhasset, N. Y. When he was seven, Vivian Burnett suggested to his mother that she write books for children like himself. That this prompted her to produce the book that set fashions for a decade and that Vivian Burnett was the prototype of its hero, Authoress Burnett confessed 13 years later when her son was a member of the track team at Harvard. Said Vivian Burnett, who later became a reporter, an editor...
Born & bred in Philadelphia, Miss Montgomery was dancing years before she came out in 1928. Since she is the daughter of rich Banker Robert Learning ("Colonel Bob") Montgomery, she has had plenty of money to study, compose, paint, model, indulge her taste for exotic instruments including Japanese "fish-heads," tiny, castinet-like instruments which priests are supposed to tap continuously near their ears to drive out all but religious thoughts. Drums have long been Miss Montgomery's passion, and for years she would not let her pupils practice with anything else...
...higher prices, off the assembly line in Flint, Mich, rolled the 13.ooo.oooth Chevrolet, just eleven months and two days after the 12,000.oooth. This was the second shortest million-unit period in the company's history. Two days later Ford Motor Co. turned out the i.ooo.oooth V8, 1937 model, built in the U. S. since production started last October. C. For the benefit of bankers and investment houses generally, and of their law- yers in particular, scholarly Director Harold H. Neff of the SEC's Division of Forms & Regulations last week made public a complete lesson in brevity...
Present Calcutta price for jute is 3¾? per lb.; for burlap, 3¾? per yd. Of all burlap imported from India, about 35% goes for automobile accessories, furniture wrapping and backing for linoleum and carpets. Ford Motor Co. used to buy 1,000,000 yds. a month for Model T upholstery. But the principal use for burlap is in sacks. In 1930 U. S. sack manufacturers made 525,000,000 burlap bags, sold them for $45,000,000. Last year production was 438,000,000 bags, sales $35,000,000. It takes about 1⅓ yds. of burlap...