Word: biddinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catalogued by old, famed Sotheby's auction rooms in London as "The Property of a Gentleman, a well-known Collector," the Hearst hoard weighed 31,000 ounces or almost precisely one ton. Some of the pieces had been acquired as recently as six months ago. Most of them had...
What President Roosevelt apparently wants is for the utilities to adopt the prudent investment basis voluntarily. Among the specific cases the President gave to point his moral was a ferryman on the Thames during Queen Elizabeth's reign. Under common law she could have valued the boat at $500...
It is possible to leave a message with the operator to have her call you at any hour in the morning. The advantages of this system are many. You can not put the telephone under your pillow like an alarm clock, and turn it off and go right back to...
In May 1936, the Guild, and the League of New York Theatres representing top producers (a notable exception, Gilbert Miller), agreed to give the playwright full control of play disposition after its legitimate production, also to give him 60% minimum instead of the previous 50% of film-rights share, cutting...
Last week Miss Parsons pulled the biggest coup of her career. Bidding against four Baltimore and Philadelphia investment banking houses for a $30,000 issue of by-pass bonds offered by Salisbury. Miss Parsons submitted the lowest bid ($30,010 at interest of 2½%), walked off with the bonds...