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...blurring the distinction between competing car lines, GM was violating a cardinal rule of Alfred P. Sloan Jr., the management genius who rescued the company from near bankruptcy in the early 1920s and ran it until 1956. In 1921, Sloan recommended that GM rationalize its products by manufacturing "a line of cars in each price area, from the lowest price up to one for a strictly high-grade quantity production car." After eliminating moribund models like the Scripps-Booth, and phasing out another, the Oakland, Sloan created the five-division lineup that has survived for nearly 60 years...
...discerning eye might see that a couple of the spoons came from a head shop in Hollywood). The house held dried ferns, wicker furniture, an odd assortment of rocking chairs, a hand-turned oak banister, framed advertisements from long ago, framed pictures of flowers from National Geographies of the 1920s-phlox, gentian, evening primrose, wintergreen, bird's-foot violet and figwort-little bottles, ancient mirrors, failing philodendrons, warmth, pleasantness and no guests...
...Such tax-cutting might have put Cambridge in difficult financial straits. Property in the city had not been revalued since the 1920s, and although the tax rate was high, most houses and businesses in the city were paying taxes on only a small percent of their actual market value...
...Lincoln sportswriter decided Bugeaters was not a proper nickname for the players and began to refer to them as Cornhuskers. Coach Jumbo Stiehm's teams, vintage 1911-15, alternately called the Cornhuskers and the Stiehm Rollers, were regularly undefeated against the likes of Notre Dame. During the 1920s, Knute Rockne's Four Horsemen lost to the Cornhuskers twice. Nebraska employed legendary Coaches Fielding Yost before Michigan and D.X. Bible before Texas...
Bohemianism did not attract him. He went to Paris in the late 1920s and found it "invaded by such a swarm of artists, writers, students, dilettanti, sightseers, debauchees and plain idlers as the world has probably never seen. In some quarters of the town the so-called artists must actually have outnumbered the working population . . ." He took a job as a dishwasher in a Paris hotel, a member of the working population 13 hours...