Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father-in-law finally said: "Well, Mac, I'll have to admit with reluctance that you were right in taking the air." For a decade after that, however, "Mac" let two of his sons who were in the Army Air Corps during the War, do the flying for the family...
...McAdoo plane cost $18,500. Mr. McAdoo can well afford it. He has long been rich. His law fees continually make him richer. For a merger which he is now bringing about he will get one more million dollars. After the 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and a decision that he was through with politics, the Bank of Italy retained him as lawyer at $50,000 a year, on condition that he desist from politics. His Presidential ambitions cost him that job when he stalemated the 1924 Democratic Convention at Manhattan. He still has his western law office...
...KING WHO WAS A KING-H. G. Wells-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). To Herbert George Wells, as to many another social idealist, man's future means a great deal. But Wells is prophet as well as wisher. Years ago, so he claims, he took a joyride in an aeroplane and prophesied Lindbergh. "This book" he declares, with some slight inaccuracy, "is the same sort of thing. . . . Can form, story and music be brought together to present the conditions and issues of the abolition of war in a beautiful, vigorous and moving work of art, which will be well within...
...deposits at Perm were accidentally discovered. Three years ago Professor Preobrajenski found in the Perm district what are now considered the world's largest deposits of potash, thus shattered the Franco-German potash monopoly. While digging for potash, drillers were pleasantly surprised to strike oil as well. U. S. petroleum is used chiefly in the form of gasoline; in Russia (with only 21,000 automobiles) the oil will be used mainly as fuel. Perm oil will turn many a wheel in the Ural industrial region, now dependent upon coal which must be transported some 1,200 miles...
...well known are the Taplins, partly because Frank E. Taplin does not like newsmen and emphatically dislikes such newsmen as roam about accompanied by cameras. Unlike the Van Sweringens, the Taplins are not usually regarded as equals, Frank E. Taplin being quite unmistakably Chief Taplin, with Charles Taplin able lawyer, acting largely as attorney for the Taplin interests...