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...purposes "other than medical research." That has been amply taken care of by open-handed Lord Nuffield, the most princely Oxford benefactor since William of Wykeham or Henry VIII. Lord Nuffield, who used to run a cycle shop for undergraduates on the High and whose Morris motorcar works in nearby Cowley now make outlying Oxford town resemble a small Detroit, startled Oxford recently by handing over $10,000,000 to realize Sir Farquhar Buzzard's dream of a university medical centre (TIME, Jan. 4). It was also Lord Nuffield who started off the Oxford Appeal in Britain with...
...Association was held last week under pressure from the Cabinet and a decision taken that "because of the imminence of the Coronation and the social consequences" of reporting the Simpson divorce it would not even be mentioned in British newspapers. Simultaneously Scotland Yard operatives took the number of the motorcar of an Associated Press photographer who was taking pictures of furniture being moved into Mrs. Simpson's new house and warned him that the political branch of Scotland Yard is "clearing this street." The U. S. photographer refused to be intimidated and made a series of amusing pictures showing...
...railroads went last week not into receivership or reorganization but into the grave. One died as a cattle-killer; the other was murdered by the motorcar...
...interest. His first job had to do with manufacturing billiard balls, then an important Hyatt product. With the development of automobile roller bearings which supplanted billiard balls, the small, struggling Hyatt became large & rich. In 1916 Hyatt was taken over by William Crapo Durant, whose General Motors dream included motorcar accessories as well as motorcars. In 1920 Mr. Durant was out of General Motors, the du Ponts were in, and Mr. Sloan was operating vice president. In 1923 he succeeded Pierre du Pont as Motors' president...
Spray pumps also developed into pumps for washing food. From food-washers came automobile washers, and from automobile washers a line of motorcar equipment including brake-testers and wheel-aligners. Thus many a Food Machinery product sprang from the spray pump, which Food Machinery still sells...