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At Michigan City, Ind., Tom Gibbons, St. Paul heavyweight, won a popular decision from Georges Carpentier, French "orchid man," in a ten-round no-decision boxing bout. Carpentier, at 173 1/2, was 5 1/2 pounds heavier than when he lost to Dempsey three years ago. "I'm ready," said...
Reports from Detroit stated that the Ford Motor Co. is now selling its cars practically at cost, and that the company's profits come from the sale of spare parts, freight charges and byproducts and from interest accruing upon bank balances and derived from securities. This statement, if accurate...
Safety First campaigns and horrible examples have informed all except those who will not learn that one of the products of imperfect combustion in the cylinders of a gasoline engine is carbon monoxide, a gas toxic and often fatal-in sufficient concentration-to human beings. Engines running in closed garages...
Sixteen entries have been received by the British Air Ministry for its Helicopter prize of $25,000. Not all the contestants are British. The U.S. is represented by Emil Berliner and his son Henry who have already achieved considerable success with a vertical lift machine in various tests in Washington...
His grandfather, Mathias Stinnes, was a rich man. His father, Gustav Stinnes, was also rich. At 20 years of age Hugo inherited a steamboat business and a mine in Westphalia from his father. From that time on he began his scheme of creating vertical trusts founded upon the broad basis...