Word: typee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...positive value in get-togethers of this type is accepted rather more restrainedly now than it was just after the war, during the blanket enthusiasm for every sort of co-operation from the Farmers' Milk Exchange to the Melting Pot. Certainly there is pleasure and prestige to be had through such associations as the National Student Federation; the profit derived therefrom must be a general and genial entity. Without executive power, which no one desires to grant it, the recommendations of the organization through its committees remain merely advisory and the whole advantage of the discussions boils down...
Last month he interrupted his series of spectacular purchases and appeared before the country in a new role. A machine which may be of epochal importance in newspaper publishing, by which type can be set by telegraph, was built, tested, proved successful. Gannett was the man who had backed the invention...
There are, however, some major differences between the two units. Direction of General Motors is divided, impersonal; Chrysler Motors, like the Ford company, is united under one chief.* General Motors uses the financial wizards of the Raskob-du Pont type; Chrysler relies chiefly on Walter P. Chrysler. General Motors is close to J. P. Morgan & Co.; Chrysler is the good friend of the Brady family and, more recently, of Dillon, Read & Co. General Motors has issued the huge total of 43,500,000 shares of common stock,† Chrysler only 4,423,484. General Motors sold 1,576,708 cars...
...cars. The table on p. 43 shows comparative prices. Often where prices are close together, they differ because one maker provides more or less fittings and accessories than another. Because every motor manufacturer produces the four-door sedan or a model very like it, the data pertains to that type of car. Prices shown below are as of Dec. 24, supplied mainly by Automotive Daily News. Many producers change their prices during the Show...
There is no such thing, to Warden Lawes, as a "criminal type" or "born criminal." He tells a story on that point...