Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Statisticians comparing May 1930 and May 1929 business found many decreases, few increases. According to the most recent Crandall Pierce Business Index, last month showed freight car loadings down 9%, commodity prices down 6%, automobile production down 31%, pig iron production down 13%. Among the comparatively few increases were commercial failures, up 9%. Yet last week one young industry prospered and expanded, cheered by its demands an old industry. For when Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. announced that it would build a 1,250-mi. natural gas pipe line from the Texas Panhandle to Indianapolis, it evidenced not only increasing...
...Prince Frederick, Md., Jack Wildstein, motorist, met a bull on the highway, stopped politely. Impolite, the bull charged the car, butted it 15 ft. backwards. Jack Wildstein turned his car around, drove away...
...Louis, Federal agents got after one Irving R. Gaertner, professional bill collector who, besides sending scurrilous duns through the mails, shamed debtors by parking his car before their homes. On the car were painted jibes: "Dead Beats Advertised," "Bad Bills Collected," "Why Be an Easy Mark...
...Wappingers Falls, N. Y., a man ordered Judd Schmidt to move his motor car from a restricted parking area. "Where d'y' get your authority?" demanded Mr. Judd. The man displayed a gold badge. Scoffed Mr. Judd: "Pooh, pooh, you're only a fireman." The badged man was Mayor John Flood of Wappingers Falls, who forthwith arrested contemptuous Mr. Judd...
...Hughes spent a third and part of a fourth million to put voices and sounds into his production. No detail was considered too minute for meticulous attention. Hughes himself is a licensed pilot able to perform almost every stunt for which he paid his flyers. He drives a motor car fast but keeps paint on his mudguards. He is fond of golf and Cinemactress Billie Dove, who recently acquired a nickel-plated Rolls-Royce...