Word: americans
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...message to the Zionist Organization of America, under the auspices of which a huge Manhattan demonstration against Arab outrages in Palestine was held (see p. 26). Declared President Hoover: ". . . My profound sympathy . . . good citizens deplore. . . . Our government is deeply concerned ... the fine spirit shown by the British government. . . . American Jews . . . have demonstrated fine sentiment and ideals. . . . Out of these tragic events will come greater security and greater safeguards for the future under which the steady rehabilitation of Palestine as a true homeland will be even more assured. . . . The fine sympathy of the American people is already evidencing itself in their...
Together the Brothers Morrow have bought the 2-in-1 Polish Co. in Canada (now 2-in-1 Shinola Bixby Corp., subsidiary of Gold Dust), Christie Brown Co. ( Canadian cracker makers), Consolidated Bakeries (also Canadian), American Linseed Co.. Standard Milling Co. They had to fight for control of the last two, but as Elder Brother George remarked last week: "We are like Tunney. We have never been beaten...
Chemicals & Dyes. Solvay & Co., great Belgian chemical company, planned to acquire through its subsidiary Solvay American Investment Corp., 100,000 additional shares of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. At present prices, the shares will cost more than $32,000,000. To finance the operation $25,000,000 of 5½% cumulative preferred stock of Solvay American will be sold, this stock carrying warrants permitting the purchase until 1934 of Allied Chemical & Dye stock at $325, one share for each four shares of Solvay American preferred. When the operation is complete Solvay will hold 466,488 shares of Allied Chemical & Dye, more...
...since we left Spokane, our clothes are soiled and greasy, our ears are humming, so I guess we'll go home. My wife and my baby Patricia are waiting for me, and Art's mother is waiting for him." So read Lieut, Nick B. Mamer's report to North American Newspaper Alliance of the 115-hour cross-country refueling flight which he and Pilot Art Walker made last fortnight in the Buhl biplane Sun God (TIME...
...young lady advertised for gifts of canceled stamps in the London Times in 1841. By 1842 Punch had another fad to ridicule. The fad spread to the U. S., and last week hundreds of stamp collectors convened at Minneapolis for the 44th annual meeting of the American Philatelic Society, largest of such U. S. bodies. They swapped stamps and stamp stories, spoke familiarly of "Luzons" (Philippine issue), "Bull's-eyes" (elliptically shaped Brazilian issue), compared albums. Seldom in the history of Minneapolis have there been so many pairs of tweezers in town. Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging...