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There is yet another brother, Otho C., whom I sent to California on my auto work and who there connected with capital to build gasoline engines. He followed them with rock drills, presses giving unheard-of high powers, improved wood distilling and now an underframe for railway cars that is revolutionary. I still remain the dub who thought people desired cheap transportation only to see them adopt "traveling houses" finished and upholstered better than their homes and furniture...
When New York's potent Ulen & Co. got the dam contract in 1929, swaggering, dynamic President Carlos Ibafiez had been "the Chilean Mussolini" for two years and both his regime and his treasury seemed rock-ribbed. Two years later the Ibafiez Dictatorship blew up and Ulen & Co. wrote in their Report to Stockholders: "The work on contracts for the Republic of Chile was suspended in 1931, due to the inability of the clients to furnish funds for their continuance...
From time to time a rock crashed through a window of the Chronicle's office. Bomb threats directed at "the capitalistic sheet'' grew dire. Employes were threatened by telephone at home. But unarmed and unguarded. Chronicle reporters went about their business. Chronicle circulation huskies ran the daily gauntlet of labor hoodlums...
...William Rockefeller mausoleum at Tarrytown, N. Y. Most big firms do their work on contract, employ their own designers. Architect Raymond Mathewson Hood who died last week (see p. 28) once worked for Presbrey-Leland. The bigger firms are apt to buy their materials from manufacturers like Rock of Ages of Barre, Vt., J. D. Sargent Co. of Mt. Airy, N. C., Georgia Marble Co. of Tate, Jones Bros. Co. of Boston, Smith Granite Co. of Westerly, R. I. who supplied the pink-white granite for Calvin Coolidge...
Principal diversion at Saratoga, after each day's races, is gambling in roadhouses like the Brook Club and the Piping Rock. Last week gambling-room proprietors expected to be allowed to run their games without interference from local authorities. To Miss Emma F. St. John, 300-lb. Saratoga chiropodist and church worker, who had requested him to remove the local commissioner of public safety, the district attorney and sheriff for their failure to clean up the town, Governor Herbert H. Lehman replied that he saw no need for executive action. When Miss St. John continued to protest...