Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pierces actuality with swift sharp glances. He early attained universal notoriety for Main Street and Babbitt, but long before that he had struggled as unsuccessful newspaper hack in Waterloo, Iowa, in San Francisco, New Haven. Supporting himself by prolific short stories, he led his nomadic existence, on foot, by motor, from St. Paul to Cape Cod, from Minneapolis to Washington and back again, gleaning, and sorting, and sifting the facts that compose his incisive writings. He started Dodsworth in Berlin, continued in France, Italy, and the Aegean Islands, finished the first draft on a motor caravan tour through England...
...dollar laundry industry in 1930. Thirty chain store systems showed February 1929 sales increasing 24% over February 1928. Cigaret output last month was half a billion greater than for last February. Copper hit a new high of 24? a pound. Automobile makers set a February record of 466,084 motor cars, more than 4,000 increase over August 1928, previous record month. Pittsburgh steel mills are running at 95% of capacity and March is expected to be a record-breaking month for steel production. Oil production was reduced by 40,000 barrels (week ending March 16 compared to week ending...
...Packard Motor...
Passenger traffic on the Southern Railway has declined 30% in the last five years, motor travel of course being the competitive influence. But while the auto was reducing passenger income it was increasing freight income. Fairfax Harrison, Southern president, estimated that 15% of Southern's 1928 freight traffic came from the automotive industry. Since Southern's 1928 passenger revenue was $24,000,000, of which 30% would be $7,200,000; and its freight revenue was $108,000,000, of which 15% is $16,200,000, the horseless carriage on the whole did not do so badly...
Died. Willard L. Velie, 32, of Moline, Ill., acting president of Velie Motor Corp., son of the late president W.L. Velie who died last October; of heart disease; in Moline...