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...airplane. In 1910 he went to see Maeterlinck's Blue Bird and was so much impressed that he gave the play's name to a 60-h.p. Darracque in which, next day, he won two races. In 1912 he had the narrowest escape of his life when a tire blew out at 100 m.p.h. Blue Bird broke a wheel, was saved from tipping over when the end of the axle, grating on a curb, held the car up till it stopped...
...intensely religious, scandalized his family by joining the Irish Guards to save Catholic Belgium. He was shell-shocked in the War; returned to Ireland for the Irish Revolution. Since then he has roamed over half the world chopping logs, working in restaurants, printshops. He was employed in a Hartford tire factory when he began to write his first short stories, invariably waste-paper-basketed when they were finished. Widely-acclaimed books followed: The Informer, Mr. Gilhooley, The Assassin, The Mountain Tavern, The House of Gold, The Return of the Brute, Two Years...
Last year B. F- Goodrich and Good-year Tire 6 Rubber took their inventory losses out of earnings, whereas in 1930 they were taken out of surplus. On a comparable basis last year B. F. Goodrich lost $8,815,000 against $10,309.000 lost in 1930. But Goodyear made $1,328,000 against...
...Auburn Automobile 3,579 1,018 Brown Shoe 1,356 1,334 Copeland Products 314 107 Devoe & Raynolds 334 132 Durham Hosiery Mills 74 12 d Firestone Tire 4,219 1,541 Glidden Co 172 18d Kelvinator 1,761 1,601 Manhattan Shirt 102 296 d National Distillers 372 307 Owens-Illinois Glass 2,744 2,738 Phillips-Jones 1 70 d 249 d R. J. Reynolds 36,396 34,256 Scott Paper 997 986 Standard Fruit 741 10 Union Bag and Paper 112 155d U. S. Radio & Television 801 365 Western Pipe & Steel 767 527 Zonite Products...
...schoolrooms he distributed a poster made from the Athenaeum portrait. As unofficial censor of the move to honor Washington, he endorses most of the commercial enterprises submitted to the Commission, suggests a fair price for Washingtonian matchboxes, fountain pen sets, Wedgwood china plates, lampshades, silhouets and plaques. The tire cover notion he rejected as unsuitable. Some of the Commission's own projects he has copyrighted himself, to prevent them from being used for advertising. When asked why his name appears so frequently in all the Commission's correspondence, Congressman Bloom becomes perturbed. He says: "My God, somebody...