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When, four months ago, William Crapo Durant, motorcar maker, announced that he would give $25,000 for the best plan submitted on Prohibition enforcement, no fewer than 23,230 competitors rushed forward with suggestions. Came a plan from a general in the Brazilian army. Came plans from African, Asiatic, Oceanic missionaries; from Connecticut tobacco-chewers, from Pittsburgh gin-millers. Came plans from "sorrowing mother," "drunkard's widow," "rum runner's deserted wife." Came also a plan from Major Chester Paddock Mills, onetime (1926-27) Prohibition Administrator for the New York City district. Last week the awarding committee, headed...
...Motors. Motorcar makers last week heard of 3 consolidations, completed or pending: 1) Hupp Motor Car Corp. (possibly controlled by William C. Durant) and Chandler-Cleveland Motors Corp. (possibly controlled by the railroading brothers Van Sweringen), forming a $130,000,000 business; 2) Chrysler Corp. and Commercial Credit Co. (Baltimore), to provide instalment sale systems for Chrysler cars; 3) Humber, Hillman and Commer (British) motor interests, as Humbers, Ltd. Object: competition with U. S. manufacturers. Capital...
Easily classified were the guests of the educators and the butchers. Henry Ford was first of cheap motorcar makers; Thomas Alva Edison was first to perfect the phonograph, the incandescent lamp and many another U. S. industrial staple. In photography, none outranks Rochester's music-loving George Eastman. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis is 78, is dean of newspaper and magazine publishers. How long is their service to science and industry is indicated by the average of their ages-74. Younger are the two historic exponents of commercial aviation, youngest of great industries. Orville Wright, at 57, is seven years...
...late William Walter Phelps, was (1889-93) U. S. Ambassador to Germany.* The grandson is an ambassador of the sidewalks to the agronomists and small-towners at Albany-fat-faced, loud, generous, shrewd, a smoker of cigars at every waking moment. He professes not even to afford a motorcar in which to battle Matron Pratt...
Perhaps the most delightful feature of M. Maurois' style is his refreshing use of similes. For a haphazard example: "Just as occupants of a motorcar, seeing themselves driven to certain disaster by a drunken driver, from a sentiment of honour do not intervene to mitigate his speed so Renaudin's inveterate determination and Monsieur Pascal's grandiloquence led the owner and the hands to a collision which both feared...