Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...attempt to interfere with the foreign development of Venezuelan oil fields, so long as his personal "cut" was promptly paid. And he had the patriotism to reinvest all his loot in his own country. Gomez oil royalties went to build Gomez hotels, cotton mills, rubber plantations, model farms. When they failed he sold them to the Government. When they succeeded he kept the change. For years the legend persisted that Dictator Gomez kept a yacht with steam up night & day in case it should ever be necessary to flee the country. Most authorities doubt such a yarn...
Miss Hayes continues to model her impersonation of Victoria with sure dramatic strokes when, after her marriage to the tall and handsome Albert, she sees him at his toilet for the first time. "Oh-h-h!" she cries, breathless at the wonder of her maidenly discovery, "you're shaving!" Not even the quiet resolution of punctilious Albert prevents her from embracing him before an open palace window, an act of domestic abandon evocative of certain tender moments in the cinema version of A Farewell to Arms...
Married- Bertrand L. Taylor, socialite Manhattan stockbroker, father of Mary Taylor, famed photographers' model; and Olive McClure, Broadway dancer; in Manhattan...
Among the exhibits permanently on view, there are many of interest. Probably most outstanding and of most value to students is the large scale model of the Globe Theatre in London where many of Shakespeare's plays were produced and where the poet himself acted. It is built to scale and all stage properties are shown with great care as are the details of the pit and galleries...