Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter P. Chrysler last week said that he will soon produce a new, small, four-cylinder model, the "Chrysler '50," that pre-orders already exceeded expected production by three months. During the six months just ended Chrysler has produced 76,773 cars (57,161 the same period last year) and disposed of practically all through their 3,749 sales outlets. Dealers and distributors, he says, have three weeks supply of cars...
...many regulatory problems which have, since 1920, fallen his way. Radio commissioners' salary will be $10,000. The theory of the bill is expressed in the declaration that "Use, but not ownership of channels of radio transmission will be allowed under license for a limited period of years." (Bill went to the House which had already passed a one-man radio-control bill. Differences between Senate and House bills are to be settled in conference between now and December.) ¶ Passed numerous pension, local, and minor bills; adjourned until November 10, when it will sit as a court...
...ponderous wheels of lawmaking into motion, and during the session just closed passed three bills following, in the main, Mr. Morrow's recommendations. Last week the President signed the last of these bills-the formidable Army Air Bill authorizing an expenditure of $150,000,000 over a period of five years, at the end of which 2,200 first-class fighting planes are to have been built. There are to be in the service 1,650 regular flying officers, 550 reserve officers, and 15,000 enlisted men, ($89,000,000 had previously been appropriated for naval aviation.) Simultaneously...
Institute of Arts, where a scene of crime was revealed. Against the open window lay a woman, painted by Franz Hals, worth $40,000. Torn bodily from its place, disappeared, was an early Persian-silk animal rug, priceless example of its type and period. It, as well as the bust of the alabastine lady below, was the gift to the museum of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford...
...Moral principles are at the base of all permanent business success- they go together. In the long run, every business question, every public question must be settled by what is right and what is wrong," he once declared. These business ideas, fantastic in their period, he had developed in his small town (Wheaton, Ill.) Methodist church circles, had kept them through his political activities there, had used them to build up a law practice of $75,000 yearly. Only if he were permitted to apply them to big business would he accept the presidency of the Federal Steel Co., which...