Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phones, the University switchboard handles approximately 2,000 calls every day. In fact so many subscribers are listed on this exchange, that it has become necessary to issue a 15-page directory for those included by the exchange so that calls may be made by number rather than by name. The Business School, H. A. A., and Medical School have switchboards of their own listed on the city exchange, but the first two named also maintain a direct connection with the University switchboard...
Buick company, cornerstone of General Motors, was the first automobile company Mr. Chrysler ever took in hand. He took it in hand in 1911 and had it until 1919. He jacked up its production from 40 cars per day to 550; established its name as a synonym for soundness; increased the Buick profits to 50 millions per annum. During William Crapo Durant's second regime in General Motors (1915-20), Walter P. Chrysler's touch was felt in all General Motors shops, for he was in charge of all General Motors production. But for his difference...
...Island in the summer of 1924, was reported in the newspapers to be using a smart, little-known roadster on his prankish nocturnal visits; a roadster so little-known and so unusual, with its four-wheel brakes and indirectly-lighted dashboard, that the newspapers felt justified in mentioning its name-Chrysler...
...college boys. She sends them in return, when requested, an autographed bosom and a printed slip stating that she was born in San Antonio, Tex., and educated at a girl's finishing school in Kansas City; that she ran away to Chicago to be an actress, changed her name from Lucille Le Sueur to Joan Crawford after a magazine contest organized to pick a name for her; that she danced for a while at Harry Richman's Club, Manhattan, has won 26 loving cups in dancing competitions; is a good swimmer; has dark hair and brown eyes...
Before the author of the murder is ascertained there are gruesome scenes of crime solution. Riff-raff from the pleasure caves, also a butler and a financier, are grilled by policemen. Not alone because of the alacrity with which the criminal's name is hit upon, the ceremonies of detection seem patterned upon the ways of the theatre rather than the ways of life. One Way Street is a melodramatic stereotype and its most exciting moment occurs when the audience sees, dangling brightly from- the end of a trunk, the shining hair of the murdered drug-girl...