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...Kaiser. Kill the Hun. Ships, ships, ships. "Oh, You Beautiful Doll." The Armistice. The boys come marching home, and the men go marching out of mines and factories suddenly idle. A Paterson police chief, fat and funny, directs his men as they throw women textile workers into a patrol wagon. "Reds" await deportation at Ellis Island. Eugene Debs comes out of jail and Woodrow Wilson sails for the Peace Conference. Henry Cabot Lodge plots destruction for the League of Nations. Three years later, a dying ex-President grins gauntly from the front door of his Washington home. Warren Gamaliel Harding...
...escape. Dushan follows to create a scene. The commanding officer arrives last of all but Dushan has meanwhile made up his mind how to handle his situation. He persuades Captain Panto to accompany him in pursuit of the lovers, who are really in a room upstairs, drives the wagon over a cliff...
...Consumers' League, was its longtime secretary. Because her heart bled for overworked salesgirls, she started the "Shop Early For Christmas" movement in the early 1900's. She heard of a youngster who worked 17 hours a day during the Christmas rush, trotting packages between a store delivery wagon and front doors. One night the boy, too tired to go home, curled up in the back of the wagon in the stable. Someone rolled it out into the icy yard and the little worker froze to death in his sleep. Mrs. Kelley carried that story up & down...
...cans are not made of tin but of sheet steel thinly coated with tin. Exports have soared with the slumping dollar. Nearly 20,000,000 lb. of oil tins were recently ordered for the Far East where after the oil is used they are freely bought & sold for homebuilding, wagon repairs and other purposes. In the U. S. can-makers' inventories are low and a large fruit & vegetable pack is expected. The Hawaiian pineapple pack is estimated at 8,000,000 cases against 5,000,000 last year. Messrs. Moore, Reid & Leeds wound up and ran their companies like...
...head auditor of American Cotton Co., he got his big chance when Yale & Towne (locks) asked him to peruse their books, promptly made him treasurer. In 1911 he went to Studebaker in the same capacity, was soon jumped to president of the company which Harry and Clement Studebaker, wagon makers, had founded in 1852. President Erskine rode the 1921 deflation unharmed, a managerial feat cited in many a textbook. And in this depression President Erskine made money until 1932. Then he tried to swing the biggest motor merger of the year- purchase of White Motor Co. (trucks). Studebaker borrowed...