Wesley Winans Stout
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English
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This autobiography by an influential silent film star gives an insider's view of the motion picture industry in the early twentieth century.
It's one of the most enduring images in film history: a young man in circular glasses, dangling from the hands of a clock high above Los Angeles. The actor performing this daring stunt was Harold Lloyd, a highly successful comedian from the silent film era. Lloyd made nearly two hundred comedies, both...
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Chrysler Corp
Pub. Date
1946
Language
English
Description
WWII was not just a war of weapons, but also a war of production. One of America's greatest victories on this front was certainly in the city of Detroit, where auto assembly lines were transformed into an arsenal of democracy. Chrysler's Tank Arsenal was the nation's most spectacular war plant, a place where history was made. From it came 25,059 medium and heavy tanks of twelve different types, including the tanks that turned the tide of the war in...
10) Touchdown!
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Publisher
Longmans, Green and Co
Pub. Date
1927
Language
English
Description
This is the story of football as told by Amos Alonzo Stagg, one of the innovators in the development of college football. Stagg served as head football coach at University of Chicago from 1892 to 1932. During his tenure, he compiled a record of 242-112-27 and led the Maroons to seven Big Ten Conference championships. Among the innovations credited to Stagg are the tackling dummy, the huddle, the reverse and man in motion plays, the lateral pass, uniform...