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...Chairman Schwab and at the meeting he admitted that a frequent question is: "What does C. M. get out of it?" His answer was: "I have been the highest paid man in the United States for a good many years. Some years my compensation was in figures that would stagger you. Now I want you to remember that I risked my money on this enterprise upon every occasion as late as 1918. Since 1908 I have received an average from this corporation of $86,000 a year. ... In 1930 the board of directors without my presence or knowledge voted...
...locally. Federal public works were admittedly only a "drop in the bucket" of U. S. construction. For psychological purposes though, the White House kept them to the fore as an example to states & cities. Also the President continued to jack up Industry with requests to push its heavy construction, stagger its employment, maintain its wages...
...projection the object stands out in three dimensions. Inventor Spoor has obtained a like effect by using a camera with two lenses which record impressions on film through a single aperture. The illusion of depth is obtained not because the images are different but because they are recorded in "stagger" formation. RKO has rights to make one picture this way. It will be a railroad film with Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, and Jean Arthur. It will be presented at the State-Lake Theatre in Chicago in two or three weeks...
Fairfax of Merchants & Miners Transportation Co. groped out of Boston Harbor, Baltimore-bound. Turning down the coast past Scituate, Mass., she quickened her pace. Just at dusk her 76 passengers, including Vice President D. R. McNeil of the company, and the crew of 80, felt her swerve, stagger. Rushing on deck they saw a horrifying fiery geyser - "like an umbrella of flame"; - rise skyward at the bow, found themselves enveloped in it. Their vessel had rammed 504,000 gal. of hightest gasoline, cargo of the Pinthis, owned by Lake Tankers Corp. (Mallory Lines subsidiary). For a roaring moment...
...smoke' sellers]. If I had a club I would hit on the head myself any man who sold poison liquor, and I would not wait for a policeman. I said poisonous liquor. ... It is a violation of the Constitution to sell [any] liquor, but we might stagger through that...