Word: pickerings
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...Motors seemed bound to have a dashing history. Some months after it was formed, it acquired the Ruxton patents for a front-wheel drive. Rights to manufacture Ruxtons were sold to Moon Motor Co. Also, William Crapo Durant sold to Moon rights to manufacture his American cotton picker, of which much has been said, not much seen. New Era Motors received 150,000 shares of Moon in the deal, soon decided to oust the old Moon management. This was done. In the struggle, aided by tales of the cotton picker, Moon rose to $16? a share. But Ruxtons were never...
Able are the younger Sachses but the weightiest thinking and most potent activities of Goldman Sachs proceed from Partner Sidney Weinburg and Partner Waddill Catchings. Partner Weinburg, treasurer of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., has the reputation of being the best "picker" (of likely issues) in the Street. A small but significant example of his selective ability has been furnished by the annual outings of the Bond Club. At this outing, automobiles are put up as prizes, tickets on the automobile are issued, and the Bond Clubbers trade in the tickets in such a manner that the smartest trader wins...
...Field (L. I.) declared it would be a miracle if the plane succeeded in leaving the ground. But the young ace thought of his Mexican bride, climbed into the cockpit of his Ryan monoplane, set out on the return flight to Mexico City. Early the next morning a berry picker stumbled across his body, the remnants of his plane, mired in a New Jersey bog. Declining a warship, Mexico requested that a funeral train speed to the border, then pass slowly through the countryside with military escort, hearing Capt. Emilio Carranza, goodwill flyer, back to his Mexican bride...
...wants to go, an' sometimes I jes' git on to go anywhere, jes' anywhere at all, jes' anywhere but where I is." Little matter where, for this colored travelin' man is of versatile profession. Not yet 35, he has covered 40 states, as cotton picker in Alabama, meat packer in Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter...
...cart between ripe cotton bushes. At each side of the mule walked a man with a tube from the vacuum pump strapped to a wrist. These men darted their hands at ripe cotton; the tubes with a soft hiss sucked the white bolls from brittle pods. A swift-handed picker can gather several hundred pounds of cotton daily with this device...