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Winning royal gratitude for his work as Assessor-Extraordinary of Sweden's Royal Board of Mines and for his invention of a device for transporting ships overland, he was ennobled in 1719. In Sweden's Parliament he pioneered in fiscal reforms and liquor regulation. He knew nine languages, was an accomplished organist and Latin versifier, mastered three crafts and dabbled in four others. Finally in 1744, aged 57, he began talking with angels and spirits...
...Romance Returns to the Railroads," showing a beauteous girl, spick & span in spotless white dress, lounging happily in an air-conditioned car. (". . . Like taking a luxurious overland cruise...
...recently flew from Nanking to Peiping," said His Holiness. "After that experience I would rather spend many months going overland to Lhasa than attempt to go by air." On his one & only flight, according to the airplane's crew, His Holiness the Panchen Lama was "grievously and continuously air sick." Skeptics doubted last week whether the Panchen Lama was seriously starting for Tibet, expected him to settle down in Inner Mongolia with the funds he has collected...
Before it fell upon evil days in February 1933 Willys-Overland employed 25,000 workers, was one of Toledo's biggest companies. Since John North Willys and later President David Wilson were appointed receivers, it has employed some 3,000 who are now finishing up production of 7,500 units authorized by the court. Willys-Overland's plight, far from hopeless, is partly due to a deficiency of working capital. Receiver Davis last week declared that unless new capital were forthcoming, the plant would have to shut down. "A calamity!" shrieked the Chamber of Commerce. Its point: Would...
...Washington, where Ohio's Senators Fess and Bulkley called at RFC headquarters to put in a good word for a state industry, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones seemed sympathetic. Willys-Overland had applied for its loan a month before, not directly, but through a mortgage association. Thus the application did not technically come under the Direct Loans to Industry bill which President Roosevelt signed last week and which limits to $500,000 the amount of money RFC may loan to one company...