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Moreover, the cultivated man can ill afford to forego the lifetime pleasure of seeing nature with his eyes open. Ideally geology should be the avocation of every college graduate. During his daily walks, from railway train, steamer, or motorcar, he can see the earth evolving; he can see her majestic rhythms, her wonderful adaptations to life, her profound control over human history. Such permanent enrichment of life comes to the man who elects a full course in general geology. Thousands of Harvard graduates can testify to the truth of this statement. It must be remembered, too, that geology...
Window trimmers, decorating showrooms last week for the Cadillac Spring Salon, teetered around a new motorcar. Salesmen studied its points: plenty of nickel plate; narrow, high radiator; low, elliptical lines; 8-cylinder, V-type motor; 125-in. wheelbase; six body types- roadster, phaeton, coupé, convertible coupé, victoria and sedan. It looked like a Cadillac slightly reduced in size. It was just that-designedly the "companion car to Cadillac." And, like the Cadillac, this new model is being built by President Lawrence P. Fisher of the Cadillac Motor Car Co. for General Motors. He is one of six brothers...
...weeks, in Detroit, and then through last week in Washington, lawyers have asked questions concerning cars and a man (TIME, Jan. 17, THE CABINET). What they drew out of the mouths of sworn witnesses was the saga of Henry Ford, motorcar maker, and his Ford Motor...
...Next day he traveled about the city in his Lincoln motorcar, without overcoat; spent five minutes with the President; routed Michigan Senator Couzens from the Senate to sign a joint telegram to Michigan Governor Fred W. Green, protesting against capital punishment; avoided the Ford stock income tax hearings, which concerned nine of his onetime stockholders...
Motor Profits. The year's first quarter just ended showed motorcar makers in excellent condition. Where profits available for dividends showed no increase over the corresponding quarter of 1924, the explanation lay for the most part with the internal adjustments of the companies concerned. The Wall Street Journal last week made up a comparative table showing profits for dividends, and per common share earnings the past three years...