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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is only one passenger automobile in Spitzbergen, two army-owned trucks in Bermuda. The Solomon Islands have two passenger cars and five trucks. Thus last week announced the U. S. Department of Commerce, presenting fresh statistics concerning the long familiar U. S. domination of the automotive world. Of a world's supply of 32,028,584 motor vehicles (exclusive of motorcycles, motorbobs, buckboards, etc.), 24,629,921 were in the U. S. A poor second was England with 1,128,200, closely followed by France with 1,098,000, and Canada, with 1,061,830. Germany, with...
Motorcycle figures showed that the European, outclassed in four-wheel locomotion, is potent in two-wheel travel. Of a world figure of 2,262,932 motorcycles, only 121,656 roar and bounce through U. S. territory...
...Industrial Alcohol Co., expanding, planned to purchase the other 50% of Eastern Commercial Alcohol Corp. The purchase was to be made from National Distillers Products Corp., which also controls Kentucky Alcohol Corp., second largest U. S. alcohol company, and Old Time Molasses Co. It was also expected that these two subsidiaries would be included in the sale of Eastern Commercial...
...utility field was not the only one to feel the urge to merge last week (see p. 52). In New York two large institutions, the Chase National Bank, the National Park Bank, at meetings of their respective boards, agreed to consolidate. Total resources of $1,200,000,000 will make the new company the third largest banking institution in the country, exceeded only by the Guaranty Trust Co., National City Bank. In point of total capital funds, it will be the largest with...
James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, vaudevillian, onetime heavyweight boxing champion of the world, is a member of the Friars Club, famed Manhattan theatrical sodality. For two years the Friars have allowed women to wait for them in a vestibule significantly nicknamed "the boxing room." Last week the Friars closed all their doors to women; "the boxing room" is no more. Explained Boxer-Friar Corbett: "There isn't any gentleman's club that likes to have ladies dropping in. And who ever heard of ladies in a monastery...