Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prices in automobile stocks, considering current automobile productions and sale. Last week Mr. Chrysler pointed out that nine months' earnings per share were $5.50 (compared to $7.03 for twelve months of 1928). Meanwhile automotive bears talked of competition, saturation, production figures weighted by disproportionate Ford and Chevrolet output, saw no good in horseless carriage securities. To which bulls replied that automobile stocks, fundamentally sound, had been driven down to attractive levels...
...gone in haste for a neural treatment, she took off her coat, sat down on a bed, fell over dead. On her body policemen found, cared for some $300,000 worth of jewelry. Lying in state at Campbell's famed Funeral Parlors, few came to see her; many saw her recent cinema across the street. Born in Kansas City, Mo., her first part, aged seven, was "Puck" in a dancing school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. After trooping with tent shows of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which she played -'Little Eva," in Kansas...
Champions of Mr. Eastman could say that, like the Rockefellers, he is spreading his philanthropies internationally. Two years ago, when after his African camera-hunting trip he visited London as guest of Baron Riddell and Sir Philip Sassoon, Prince of Wales's crony, he saw that the city needed a first-rate U. S.-type dental clinic, he donated $1,300,000 as a "mark of affection and admiration for the British people...
...third time in recent years St. Louis last week saw swollen balloons sway foolishly for the start of a James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. The race has occurred each year since 1906, except for the War period...
Near Tuckahoe, N. J., Johnny di Rocco, 13, hunting with some friends in a cedar swamp, sighted a low-flying hawk, raised his gun, fired. Over the tops of some corn stalks they saw a man topple, fall. Breathlessly they waited for a sign from the cornfield. Johnny, panic-stricken, threw down his rifle and plunged into a wood. With solemn faces the other boys went back to town. Not until midnight did they gather up enough courage to tell about the murder. Immediately Mrs. di Rocco with a posse of policemen set out to find her boy. All night...