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...Ford must take possession of the ships within 60 days and scrap them or install Diesel engines and put them into service within 18 months. With a few of the ships he is expected to adopt the latter course. All the rest must be scrapped. He has the privilege of salvaging any machinery he can, for use in his own factories. Following the purchase Mr. Mayo offered $40,000 apiece for seven ocean-going tugs, ISO feet long, with which to tow his purchases to his wrecking yards (probably most of the ships will be scrapped at Detroit). The Shipping...
About three quarters of the purchasers of automobiles pay for them on credit over the course of the following year. The theoretical risk to the sellers has led progressive Walter P. Chrysler to adopt a plan whereby each purchaser of a Chrysler car will automatically receive a fire and theft insurance policy on it. The cost of the insurance is included in the price of the car. Thus not only is the owner protected, but also the maker. The idea has also appealed strongly to the General Motors Corporation, who are said to favor its adoption on their enormous output...
...Maine resigned. "My action is in no way prompted by any unpleasant factors," he wrote, "but by the fact that I have been offered an opportunity to try, on a very large scale, the educational policies which the state of Maine has not as yet been willing to adopt. At the present time, the state of Maine is lacking woefully in its support of its state university. It has departed somewhat from an absolutely inadequate appropriation in 1922, but it is still far from realizing its obligations, and even from adopting as generous an attitude as that shown by smaller...
...educational policies which the state of Maine has not yet been willing to adopt...
...Adopt the Union Jack with the Canadian arms superimposed in the centre...