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Last week in Manhattan, a new medal was awarded for the first time by the Society of Automotive Engineers. It was given to Col. Howard Marmon, vice president and chief engineer of the Marmon Motor Car Co., Indianapolis. Colonel Marmon comes from an engineering family. Nordyke & Marmon, flour mill machinery, was founded by his father in Indianapolis 80 years ago. During the War, Engineer Marmon was one of the developers of the Liberty Motor. Frederick E. Moskovics, president of Improved Products Co. (promoters), onetime officer of Marmon Co., was donor of the award. He stipulated that each year it should...
Enter Canada. Wheat and flour, necessities of the Chinese masses, continue to enter China free.* Tremendous was the sensation in Vancouver, Canada, last week when the Vancouver Province "revealed" that...
...International Secret Service Association, recalled that he was hired to investigate the Black Tom blast immediately after it occurred. Said he last week: "The real story of the explosion is this: The watchmen employed to guard the millions of dollars' worth of War materials, sugar, salt, flour and explosives were bothered by New Jersey mosquitoes that infested the swampy land about Black Tom. They had built themselves a smudge fire to drive them...
Spasm. Three days later a minor counter-revolutionary spasm occurred in Rio. Disgruntled military police and hungry Communists rioted, seized the central police station. Barricaded behind bean and flour sacks, soldiers, sailors, marines potshot the insurgents. Inside of two hours the uprising was quelled. Casualties: 200 killed and wounded...
...European paintings for 9,860 francs ($1,972) deserted his wife and children and went to spend the rest of his life in Tahiti, the "Terrestrial Paradise.'' There, still subject to acute melancholia, he went completely native, painted serene pictures of statuesque Maoris on canvas salvaged from flour bags, wrote Noa Noa, an autobiographical account; died in poverty on the island of Dominica in the Marquesas...