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...pays special taxes of $417,500,000 ($89,000,000 more than the amount of all taxes that U. S. railroads pay). Truck manufacturers represented were Autocar, Baker-Raulang, Brockway, Diamond T, Divco-Twin, Dodge, Federal, Ford, Four Wheel Drive, Fruehauf Trailers, General Motors, International Harvester, Mack, Marmon-Herrington, Pak-Age-Car, Reo, Sterling, Studebaker, Truck-tor, Walker, Walter and White. Motor-makers were Aircooled Motors Corp., Buda, Continental, Cummins, Hercules, and Waukesha. Represented, too, were some 75 body, wheel, accessory and fuel companies...
Attacks on this cost are evident this year in weight-paring and the use of lighter, stronger metals by Cummins, Buda and Hercules (which displayed a Ford V-8 truck replacement unit), and in the entrance into large-scale Diesel production of Mack, Dodge and General Motors...
...Sidney I. Brodie '40, Harold James Etmekjian '39, Murray F. Foss '40, Melvin H. Freedman '41, Pasquale F. Frisoli '40, William R. Frye '40, of Wollaston, Willard P. Fuller Jr. '40, Gerard G. C. Galassi '39, Arnold S. Gale '40, Anthony Galluccio '39, Joseph J. Geehern '40, James Mack. Gillespie '41, Joseph Greenberg '40, Sumner Hangler '39, Robert B. Hayden '40, Raymond F. Healey '40, Thomas V. Healey '40, Gordon S. Iorardi '39, Harry M. Johnson Jr. '39, Charles A. Kane '39, Heury Kaplan '40, Jacob J. Kaplan '40, Elmer V. Kenncally '40, Paul Kerins '41, Arthur H. Klein...
Most important single fact about Toulouse-Lautrec is that both his legs were broken and stopped growing when he was 14. His noble father, Count Alphonse, who was interested mainly in falcons and thoroughbred horses, promptly lost interest in Henri. Among the best things in Gerstle Mack's book are excerpts from young Lautrec's whimsical convalescent letters, a quaint "Zig Zag Journal'1 he kept at 16, his first sassy comments on art exhibitions in Paris. But as Lautrec became mature and bitterly familiar with his deformity, the pleasures of cafe conversation took the place...
Doll-like, repulsively big-nosed, black-bearded and bespectacled, Lautrec loved circuses, dance halls, race tracks. Several brothels came to regard him as a kind of mascot. His home and native element was Montmartre. Biographer Mack has tried conscientiously but has failed to reanimate this legendary quarter. He ploughs without inspiration through genealogies of the successive owners of peripheral café-concerts where Lautrec occasionally had a drink. It is interesting to learn that Jane Avril, the delicate dancer of the Moulin Rouge whose skull-like face Lautrec loved to draw, still lives and remembers him. Mr. Mack...