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...could turn petroleum 100% into kerosene. This was a valuable claim because the lighter distillations, such as are used for gasoline, were in those days dumped into rivers as waste-products. When the process failed, Mr. Ewing dropped out, but Mr. Everest developed Vacuum Harness Oil, sold it in second-hand oyster cans...
...deck again at the Capitol when the House passed the 15-cruiser bill last year. He handed out yellow-bound pamphlets abusing the British, bristling with statistics to prove the inferiority of the U. S. fleet. Only a few Congressmen realized they were being supplied with second-hand arguments, the same material Lobbyist Shearer had used at Geneva. In the midst of his lobbying, he made this statement...
...small army of retainers, Secretariat members thought only in the nick of time to provide a throne for the dusky, red-fezzed potentate. Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly canvassed Geneva's second-hand shops until he found a massive chair heavy with carvings and bright red plush into which the king of Egypt would decorously fit. The democratic, glass-walled Council Chamber of the Secretariat was made into a temporary throne-room, memoranda of etiquette were issued to the press, warning them...
...driver of the battered flivver and the second-hand Dodge the proposal now before a committee of the General Court should be of interest. The plan suggested is to repeal compulsory insurance and substitute for it an act based on a New Hampshire law which provides that, although insurance is unrequired, drivers causing accidents are barred from the road until damages are payed...
...automobile. That did not prevent him from becoming an automobile salesman. He earned $15,000 in commissions the first year. Then, in 1910. he went into the taxicab business with Walden W. Shaw. The Chicago Athletic Club wanted a private cab service. Messrs. Hertz and Shaw had only two second-hand cars. They borrowed eight others, painted them brightly, paraded past the Chicago Athletic Club, won the contract...