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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Details of the merger were not announced, but the exchange of stocks was doubtless to be on an almost even basis. The new company will be called Goldman Sachs Trading and Financial Corp. It will have for president Waddill Catchings (Goldman Sachs), for vice president Arthur Sachs (Goldman Sachs), for executive committee chairman Ralph Jonas (Financial and Industrial...
...balls and bats constitute no major portion of the Spalding company's present production. In 1892, A. G. Spalding & Bros, acquired Wright & Ditson and A. J. Reach, sporting goods companies, and put itself in an almost monopolistic position to profit from that trend in U. S. life which was to add the football stadium to collegiate architecture and golf .to the businessman's routine. Had the famed football player who wished to die for dear old Rutgers realized his ambition, a Spalding ball would have been found under his corpse. The first Davis Cup tennis matches (1900) were...
Mechanic Grubb, sprawled among empty gasoline tins, had to be lifted out of the plane. He was almost unconscious, gulping for air. Before the take-off he had been fitted and jammed into his compartment, which was filled with extra fuel cans. Throughout the flight, he had had to pump gasoline from the cans into the wing tanks...
Only three dozen planes appeared at the New York Aviation Show last week. Few of the better known planes were there. The American Legion, not the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, had organized the show. But it was the first air exposition that New York has had for almost eight years and 20,000 persons daily endured the active discourtesies of Grand Central Palace Exposition factotums to see the planes. Many a sight-seer bought a plane on the spot. Many another was there just to learn to recognize the different makes...
...Louvre was the famed La Belle Ferronière (The Blacksmith's Daughter), most often attributed to Leonardo and almost identical with the Lardoux portrait. Thus Connoisseur Sortais' dictum implied that Leonardo had painted this subject twice. But, since the Louvre painting disappeared in 1848 and later reappeared, there loomed other suspicions. Perhaps the Louvre Belle was a fake. Perhaps the Lardoux Belle was the genuine Leonardo. Perhaps both were by minor artists. Apart from dogmatic critical opinions there was no evidence to show that Leonardo had painted either Belle...