Word: assets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days of much outdoor photography is the fact that southern Florida, besides being hotter than southern California in summer, is flat as a pancake, lacks all scenery except swamps, beaches, palms, truck gardens and fruit groves. Said optimistic Joe Schenck last week: "Transportation is the major asset and you have that. . . . If we have to have mountains, it isn't very far to the Carolinas...
Injuries: loss of some of Manager Phil Angier's eyebrows, some of Whiteside's temper, and $4500 worth of launch; asset: driver Arthur Sampson has what Swift & Co. call "smoked hams...
...family died, his heir Rudolf supposedly by his own hand, his wife by a shoemaker's awl in the hand of an assassin. The War finally killed the old Emperor. The pension he had given Frau Schratt the Austrian Republic promptly canceled. But she still had plenty of assets: the neat villa, jewels, antiques. Her greatest asset was what she remembered of the scandal-riddled House of Habsburg but on that asset, despite the incessant wheedlings of publishers' agents, she has never drawn. Instead she mortgaged her villa. Last week at 78 she was still living...
...month after Ivar Kreuger shot himself to death in his Paris apartment in 1932, Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. was appointed receiver to conserve the assets of International Match Corp., the Swedish swindler's principal U. S. sinkhole. According to Kreuger's handmade balance sheets, Match was a $200,000,000 concern with world-wide properties. Discovering only $9,871 in cash, the receivers searched the wide world for other Match assets. It disputed the claims of Kreuger & Toll. It accused the German Government of "flagrant discrimination" between Swedish and U. S. creditors under the famed "Kreuger...
...turned from its efforts to find out just how serious Mexican Catholics are about their religion and lit on the internationally-owned Mexican Eagle Oil Co., a $35,000,000 affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell. For the past three years a Mexican company called Commercial Petroleum, whose chief asset is its story that it has the rights to a valuable Eagle oil field, has been suing Eagle with great success in the Mexican courts. Appealing last month to the Supreme Court, Eagle was obliged to put up a bond of approximately $10,000,000, winner take all. Eagle chose London...