Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the frost-bleared windows of the St. Bernard hospice,* 8,000 feet up in the Great St. Bernard Pass between Switzerland and Italy, the Augustinian canons and their servants on duty there last week watched a train of sleds zigzag its way up the pass from the Swiss side. Snow was deep; wind blistering. None, remarked the canons, but Americans with their quaint inquisitiveness would make such a trip in such weather. Forthwith they sent servants to heat liquids. Other servants they dispatched to assemble the St. Bernard dogs, those great spaniels bred to retrieve humans from the Alpine...
...motor manufacturers* which have recently spent $12,000,000 on assembling plants and the development of sales organizations in Germany. Officials of the threatened U. S. group said, last week, that they had had a "working agreement" with the Ministry of Commerce that no such bill would be passed; but last week Reichstag demagogs stampeded the bill through, on the grounds that "the assembling of foreign motor cars from imported parts in Germany is an evasion of the duty on imported automobiles." A further escapade by the Deputies, last week, was to pass 333 to 53 a bill increasing...
...English House of Commons could pass on and reject the revised, alternative Book of Common Prayer offered for its judgment last week by the Church of England, because the Church of England is interdependent with the British Government (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Church is "established." The King nominates its bishops; they sit as peers in the House of Lords. The Government administers the vast funds and properties of the Church. The two have been closely bound since Parliament passed the Uniformity...
...Gold Pieces. Christmas week, and again not enough $2.50 gold pieces to pass around for presents! Bank tellers apologized to their depositors. What could they do? The National Association of Mutual Savings Banks had sent a letter to Secretary Mellon personally, demanding $2.50 gold pieces for Christmas. He had not complied. Did you want to see a copy of that letter...
...Detroit factory of the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co., President Fred Wardell long ago established the conveyor system for assembling his vacuum cleaners. Over continuously moving belts and rollers there pass to workers the switches, wire, handles, motors, wheels, aluminum casings, bags and other parts that make up the Eureka cleaner. The system produces 1,500 cleaners a day, 300,000 a year. Last week it halted for a few moments for a ceremony- the assembling of the 2,000,000th vacuum cleaner which the company has manufactured since President Wardell created it in 1910. The 2,000,000th machine...