Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course I am unable to say, which "one" of a dozen or more the Senator "saw," but everyone of them could no doubt hit the ground with his hat and therefore be unable to qualify. And along with the Senator, they all wore their hats large in those days...
Others. Graham-Paige almost doubled its first quarter 1928 output, producing more than 25,000 Graham-Paiges during first three months of 1929. Nash beat March, 1928 by 44%, Franklin by 140% (1,566 units). March saw the millionth Oakland roll down the runway. Marmon had a record-breaking March, featured by its new Roosevelt (8 cylinders, less than $1,000). President A. R. Erskine of Studebaker told stockholders of $4,500,000 earnings, in best first quarter for five years. Continental Motors Corp. (engines) showed sales increases, exclusive of sales to Ford, of 18% over first quarter...
...Cuban restriction plan, like England's rubber restriction experiment, achieved quite opposite results. The rest of the sugar producing world saw a golden opportunity to make money. And while Cuban production fell from 5,125,970 tons in 1925 to 4,011,717 tons in 1928, the world crop, swelled by many a new cane and beet plantation, rose from 23,687,000 to 25,326,000. Cuba then supplied only 16% of the whole. World markets were seriously unsettled...
...matter what their turn of mind, all Cheneys saw a Cheney-built schoolhouse and a Cheney-built library. They saw a large wooded park, around which were dotted nine large Cheney residences and a half dozen smaller Cheney houses. They saw a large expanse of Cheney-owned silk mills and warehouses. They saw block on block of Cheney-built employes' houses. But they saw no Cheney-built churches, for the Cheneys, though exceedingly moral, are no pillars of the church...
...present Duke of Sutherland, lazying at Lausanne, saw a photograph of the portrait in the Sun, with a report of its presence in the U. S. For a moment the Duke wondered if he was bemused. But there could be no doubt that his pictured ancestress remained as she had for years, at his country home in Guildford, England. He so informed...