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...first U. S. civic opera house, equipped even to private quarters for the stage animals. Merola's formula remained the same as at the old Auditorium. He kept the seasons short, used the local symphony orchestra and local choristers, sold out his performances with Big Names. The local backlog became stronger with the foundation of a ballet school with able Adolph Bolm, oldtime Diaghilev dancer, in charge. Last year, spending some $40,000 on scenery alone, the San Francisco Opera produced Wagner's Ring cycle, headed the casts with Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior, the two great Wagnerians...
...shrank to a low of $72,000 (in 1931). Since then Fairchild has entered the transport field, has developed a high-speed amphibian popular with Pan American Airways, is developing for the Navy an in-line air-cooled motor. Sales recovered to $511,000 last year, and a comfortable backlog of orders is now on the books...
...directors squelched him was a service for small investors. Most big investment counsel firms refuse to handle accounts of less than $100,000. Even that amount yields only $1,000 annually at the usual fee of 1%, Mr. Young's Young Management Corp. started with a big backlog of large ac counts, but it will also go after ones as small as $10,000. This is a virtually un touched field. The average U. S. investor with less than $100,000 generally depends upon his own wits or bankers and brokers where advice is not always unbiased. With simplified...
Newsfolk in Italy work under the only Dictator who knows journalism's every twist and straightaway. In personal letters to friends abroad last week Rome correspondents built up a backlog of excited rumor against which Il Duce's way with the Press blazed with startling highlights...
After a turn at making gunpowder canisters during the War, Nephew Richard organized U. S. Foil Co. to supply tin foil to the tobacco industry, with his family's orders as a logical backlog. By the time Libby Holman married his first cousin, Nephew Richard had branched into thermostats and Eskimo Pies and Reynolds Metals had succeeded to the business of U. S. Foil. Today Reynolds Metals is a $12,000,000 corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange but U. S. Foil, now simply a holding company, owns about 55% of its stock and also controls Eskimo...