Word: makers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When, four months ago, William Crapo Durant, motorcar maker, announced that he would give $25,000 for the best plan submitted on Prohibition enforcement, no fewer than 23,230 competitors rushed forward with suggestions. Came a plan from a general in the Brazilian army. Came plans from African, Asiatic, Oceanic missionaries; from Connecticut tobacco-chewers, from Pittsburgh gin-millers. Came plans from "sorrowing mother," "drunkard's widow," "rum runner's deserted wife." Came also a plan from Major Chester Paddock Mills, onetime (1926-27) Prohibition Administrator for the New York City district. Last week the awarding committee, headed...
...recent career of Motor-Maker Chrysler has been such a succession of crescendoes that the long overture is in danger of getting drowned out. Particularly in view of the present, climactic movement of Chrysler Motors v. General Motors, it is important to recall that...
...college or university students in the U. S. What if an editor could find a common denominator to their interests and publish a magazine that each of these 800,000 would read? To probers of student psychology the publication would be a telltale document. And to tailor, tobacconist, maker of sweets or shoes-what a medium for national advertising...
Last week the Greenwich House, Manhattan, Workshops opened, a workshop where Italian boys are apprenticed in the old tradition to a master cabinet maker-Nicola Famiglietti, once of Naples. In the little house on Jones Street, designed by Delano & Aldrich, architects for Greenwich House itself, there are, not classes, but a guild of young boys whose ancestors may have been famed violin makers or stone cutters of Italy, or sculptors whose talents have descended to a generation unrealized were it not for Greenwich House and Victor Salvatore, who lends his time and enthusiasm and wise counsel to the development...
...vertical and water-cooled. But the Wright Aeronautical Corp., which bought their airplane patents now makes radial air-cooled (whirlwind and cyclone) motors, but no planes. Nearly 3,000 Wright whirlwinds will have been made & sold this year. Pratt & Whitney (Wasp & Hornet radial motors) is the next largest motor maker, with 1,200 output this year. Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. makes V-type motors for its own planes; Fairchild Aviation Corp. is almost ready to market its Caminez radial engine. Packard and Velie, among motor car engine makers, have modified their motors for flying...