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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Journalist Poliakoff circles over Europe like a hawk. He slaps no backs but never forgets a name or a face. At home in his six-storied London house he claims London's biggest private telephone bill. His work day begins at 5:30. Stopping only for snacks, Augur swiftly turns out his well-turned, exclusive, thrice-a-week Diplomatic Letters, restricted to 72 copies, over which every embassy in London pores. Poliakoff is equally proud of his weekly piece for the provinces, his occasional cabled stories to the New York Times. Somewhere he finds time to write books...
...hours before William Paley went on the air, David Sarnoff, president of RCA, met his stockholders in Radio City's Studio No. 8-H, world's biggest. For the last few years RCA meetings have been furious affairs, with abuse, denunciation and a certain amount of gloomy prophesying. But last autumn RCA declared its first common stock dividend, and last week Mr. Sarnoff's stockholders confined themselves to asking how about Frank McNinch and Paul Walker. Said Mr. Sarnoff: "We have nothing to conceal, nothing to hide...
...Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., cheered The Bronx and indicated that private finance could do its part. Mr. Ecker's announcement: Metropolitan has signed contracts with builders to put up $35,000,000 worth of housing, covering 120 acres in The Bronx. This development will be by far the biggest housing project ever undertaken in the U. S. When completed three years from now, 50,000 people will live...
...prospered. After Marva Trotter, fiancée of Prizefighter Joe Louis, bought her trousseau from Frank Howell, four other Mae's Dress Shoppes were started by rivals eager to cash in on the publicity; but Frank Howell's Original Mae's Dress Shoppe is today the biggest and most fashionable in Bronzeville...
...Biggest check the Government have on Imperial Airways is its Empire Air Mail Program by which, at a three cent per half-ounce rate, all mail is carried by air to South Africa, India, Hong Kong and Australia. To carry the first batch of mail at the new rate from England to the East, Imperial Airways chose a Quantas pilot, 40-year-old G. U. ("Guppy") Allan, renowned in Australia as an opener of new air routes. So heavy were Pilot Allan's mailbags (8,000 Ib.) that passengers were transferred to another ship. Imperial Airways looks forward this...