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...duplicate General Motors -by means of Consolidated Motors Inc., which he has just had incorporated in Delaware. And "exactly as the Buick in 1908 was used as the nucleus and the keystone of the great General Motors," he intends to use the new Star Six as the sill timber of his new structure. For supports, braces and superstructures to this he can furnish other companies that he controls-Durant Motors Inc. (makers of Star and Durant motor cars), American Plate Glass Co., Motors Parts Corp., New Process Gear Co., Warner Corp., Locomobile Co. of America (Locomobiles), Adams Axle Co., Mason...
When the U. S. was very young,* wooden bowls were turned where "dish timber" grew and "minifers" (pins) came whence brass could be drawn into wire. New England resourcefulness produced "Yankee notions" which found a ready market with the agrarian Dutch, the simple Quakers, the luxury-loving Southerners. Bright young Yankees left home with a packful of Neighbor Brown's nutmegs, Neighbor Smith's pie tins and Uncle Timothy's rawhide "whangs" (shoe-laces). Bronson Alcott hit the road with tinware and almanacs instead of going to Yale. Worcester Polytechnic Institute was founded by John Boynton, onetime...
...irked, ordered a counterstroke and his Post (the morning edition lately established to oppose the morning News), swaggered: "You can't stop us, by cracky! Here we come down the road again and all the strange chickens and stray cats and little fellows everywhere are taking to the tall timber." The Post offered two gallons of free gas to every want-advertiser...
Undaunted by the bared fangs of "huskies" a la Jack London, the glaring orbs of crouching timber wolves, the "heap big Injun" chiefs whittling with wicked knives before gewgawed teepees in full war regalia, a daring reporter penetrated the aboriginal forest of the Canadian Pacific Railway at the Sportsman's--Show in Mechanics Hall Guided by Bassaqua the squaw woman, he was on the trail of Thomas Edmonds Wilson, dean of Canadian guides, in whose honor a monument has been erected at Takakka Falls, Alberta...
...quick to notice that as soon as the pack animals realized that we were moving beyond the timber line, they ceased to function, some even lying down. Remember that time was short and that twelve photographers as well as an advance agent of the Alpine Club were waiting there at the bottom of this mountain for news of our success...