Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech by Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics Frederick Trubee Davison, a prayer by Navy Chaplain J. J. Brady, military music and air-gambolings by Army pilots and club members, completed the first air country club's opening program. Fifty-five planes were in the air at one time. In activity and gayety the scene was like a hunt meet or steeplechase...
...Another famed onetime bicycle maker is Motor Tycoon John North Willys, 55, who did business at Canandaigua, N. Y., not far from Hammondsport. In 1917 he helped Mr. Curtiss expand Curtiss Motor and Plane production for war demands, by acquiring controlling stack of the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. Mr. Keys, president, now has control...
Ballyhooed by this handbill, "Doc" Rockefeller witched dollars out of the pop-eyed citizenry of Midwestern hamlets before the Civil War. Husky, usurious, "Doc" believed sharping made the victim sharp. Hence didactic William sharped his own son out of board-money. That son, grateful for sharpness thus acquired, was, is, John Davison Rockefeller, "world's richest man," whose ninetieth birthday comes next week...
...organized society." He tries to stop as short of libel as of praise. Psychologically, his work is a study of the U. S. single-track mind engaged in the prime U. S. occupation?money-making. Historically, the work treats of a career coincident with the entire post-Civil War development of U. S. industry...
...Erie (third oldest U. S. road, founded 1832) showed fair progress up to and through the Civil War, then passed into the hands of Jay Gould, Jim Fiske and Daniel Drew. There followed a long series of unprofitable years, during which the Erie was an "orphan" road, no one interest controlling it. In 1924 the Van Sweringens secured control, and the Erie soon began to show a profit instead of 3 loss. Erie's 1927 net income was $3,512,650; its 1928 income was $10,002,883. For the first quarter of 1929 it showed...