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...went for another hour . . . when I suddenly saw what I thought was a bad oil leak in his right-hand motor. I took the wheel and asked Bennett to give me his opinion of the seriousness of the leak. He jotted down that it was very bad. ... It was one of the big moments. . . . We throttled the starboard motor . . . could make a little more than 60 miles an hour on the other two motors. Great...
...that it can be used in England, when Lord Byng returns there." Though the make was not mentioned, knowing U.S. motorists suspected the car of being a 75-horse-power "McLaughlin Buick" turned out at the Canadian Buick works, Oshawa, Ontario, and with the steering wheel fitted on the right-hand side of the body...
...keep up for 15 rounds. Goodrich waited his chance. Kansas was standing off to loop a left to the head, when he sent across his sock. Wham! With all the leverage of his springy body behind it, his right fist encountered the other's jaw. Rocky did not waver. Oof! Again the big right-hand sock. Rocky came tearing in. ... He was flogging Goodrich's red ribs when the gong clanged for the end of the 15th round and the referee stepped forward to indicate that he-Rocky ("Bleeding") Kansas-was the world's new lightweight champion...
Among the ablest of Manhattan's wealthy Hebrews is a small man named Louis Wiley. As Business Manager of the New York Times, he is the right-hand prop of Adolph S. Ochs, famed proprietor of that newspaper. There are few facts about newspaper publishing that are not noted in the card-index under Louis Wiley's hat. Recently he held forth on the topic of waste...
Then George F. Baker got his eye on Davison and induced him to become, at 35, his right-hand man, Vice President of the First National Bank. Then came the panic of 1917. Davison was one of the bankers whom J. P. Morgan rushed around to in the dark days. Next year he was made adviser to the National Monetary Commission. Then one day in the fall of 1908, J. P. Morgan called him into his library and announced that he was to become a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. During the War, President Wilson called upon...