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...salesman once fell into conversation with a goateed little fellow traveler in a smoking compartment, finally asked: "What do you do? My line is skirts." Replied President William Allan Neilson of Smith College: ''That's my line...
Finally Mr. Ball decided it was time to pass out a brief statement: "George A. Ball today announces the sale by the George & Frances Ball Foundation to Robert R. Young of New York, Allan P. Kirby of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. and Frank F. Kolbe of New York, of its Alleghany Corp. securities held by Midamerica Corp. and its interest in the Cleveland real estate. . . . He is impressed with the sense of public responsibility possessed by these gentlemen...
...Angeles in 1926 Brothers Allan and Malcolm Loughead incorporated as Lockheed Aircraft Co. because people mispronounced their name as "loghead." The Lockheed Vega presently rolled off their line, first of a series of single-motored speedsters which set many a record. In 1933 Lockheed developed the fast, twin-motored, ten-passenger Electra, which immediately became as much the darling of little airlines as the 14-passenger Douglas DC2 simultaneously became of big. When the Electra was launched, Lockheed had 200 employes. Last week the payroll was over 1,400, the plant had just been doubled and all factory hands given...
...limit to this policy, if orderly government, as we know it here, is to go on." "Insurrection!" Despite this solemn warning, the sit-down of 6,000 Chrysler employes rolled on last week along the trail blazed by the G. M. strike. As the deadline approached which Circuit Judge Allan Campbell had set in his injunction ordering the sit-downers to evacuate, 30,000 to 50,000 roaring sympathizers massed around the eight seized plants in giant picket lines and the defiant sit-downers sat tight behind their barricades. Two days later Chrysler followed General Motors' example by getting...
...Married. Allan Henry Hoover, 30, younger son of the 31st President, Bakersfield, Calif, farmer; and Margaret Coberly; in Los Angeles...