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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Studebaker-Pierce Arrow. Stockholders of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co. met, last week, to approve plans for an alignment (not a merger) with Studebaker Corp., bringing together companies with total assets of $200,000,000, making the fourth largest manufacturing unit in the industry. Studebaker will invest $2,000,000 in a reorganized Pierce Arrow company, call upon its selling organization to increase Pierce Arrow production to 15,000 cars yearly...
Memorable was the defense of the penny as a buying unit by Emile C. Schurmacher, managing editor of The Candy Gazette. Editor Schurmacher wrote to the New York Times: "There has been a steady increase in the sale of penny candy (red hots, all-day suckers, 'lickerish' shoe laces). . . . If there is anybody who is offsetting the younger generation's contempt for the penny as a medium of exchange, it is the penny candy manufacturer...
...representation coming to it. Since 1910, Michigan's population has grown with its industries, notably motors. California will get three more seats. Other gainers will be as follows: Connecticut, i; New Jersey, i; North Carolina, i; Ohio, 2; Texas, i; Washington, i. The adjustment will involve enlarging the unit of representation rather than swelling the ranks of the already cumbersome House. Instead of one Representative to every 211,877 of population, the latter figure will be considerably increased. This, of course, will take seats away from several States, as follows: Missouri, 2; Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana...
...Formerly the 149th, a unit of the famed-in-War 42nd ("Rainbow") Division, of which General Summerall commanded the artillery brigade. Last week the "Rainbow" held a reunion at Columbus, Ohio, with addresses by onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker and Maj. Gen. Summerall. Lieut. Col. William P. Screws, 12th Infantry, of Baltimore, was elected president...
Fuselage: The structure (contains power plant, passengers, cargo, etc.) to which wings and tail unit are attached...