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...market-woman with arms full of children and a heaping tray of fruit balanced on her head is trailed by a hopeful Henry carrying a long-handled net...
...Net result to the State of Hauptmann's cross-examination was that the defendant admitted writing "boad" in a notebook for boat, a misspelling which occurs in one of the ransom notes, and confessed to two German crimes: Holding up two women and breaking & entering the home of the Mayor of Rackwitz...
...clear of any wrongdoing, and it is plainly a case of where I have been made the 'goat' to cover up errors of omission and commission of the board of governors of the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. . . . Practically without exception my firm and clients were not net short of sugar, but were short of December against other sugar that could not be delivered. . . . The cause of complaint was the technical corner which existed in the midst of plenty...
...first brought a duck into my net," said Joe Penner, while reclining in his dressing-room at Keith's, "back in the early days of my career, when I was touring the country in vaudeville acts, usually two jumps ahead of the hotel rent collector, which was not so bad, and the rest of the time about two laps behind him, which was not so good...
...today. Its principal stockholder once turned down an offer of a billion dollars for the company as a going concern. Since it was founded in 1903 with $28,000 of paid-in capital, it has grossed a few hundred millions in excess of $11,000,000,000, retained as net gain nearly $800,000,000. No man in all history has made so much money so quickly or so cleanly as Henry Ford...