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Mack was founded by John Mack, a Brooklyn stationary engineer who had two brothers in the wagon-building business. The first Mack truck took three years to build, cost $25,000, was a failure. By 1906 Mr. Mack was able to turn out a ten-ton model that worked, and the company has been making heavy-duty trucks ever since. After a series of pre-War mergers, Founder Mack retired with $1,000,000. Somewhat later he stepped off a street car in the company's home town of Allentown, Pa., was run down and killed by a Republic...
...SOUND WAGON - T. S. Stribling...
...Twain, bull-roarers like H. L. Mencken, splenetic idealists like Sinclair Lewis, ironic fantasists like James Branch Cabell and Robert Nathan. But last week critics hitched up their chairs, clapped on their best glasses and took a good hard look at Thomas Sigismund Stribling's latest novel, Sound Wagon. Before reading it, few would have admitted that Author Stribling might be capable of urbanity, let alone sustained satire. After reading it, many might have allowed that here at last was a U. S. satirical mirror with a sufficiently high polish to be called urbane...
...Gordon Gilkey, Jr. '39, has volunteered to assume the burden of the Red Cross work which is to be done by the committee this year. His duties largely will consist of acting as a chauffeur in the House beach wagon twice each week...
...Aren't you contending that the Government could make it a Federal crime to steal a bale of cotton off a farmer's wagon, because the cotton will eventually go into interstate commerce?" demanded Justice McReynolds...