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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly half a century William Vincent Astor, biggest, richest U. S. landlord, friend and fellow-fisherman of Frank-lin Roosevelt, has tinkered with trains- toy and real. On his Rhinebeck, N. Y. farm a foot-high locomotive chuffs over 600 yd. of miniature track, while its owner potently sits on the boards of such full-sized lines as Great Northern and Illinois Central. Five years ago Railroader Astor purchased five acres of Bermuda's 19 square miles of tax free soil,* began to build a lordly tropical house, "Ferry Reach," and meantime extended his land along the waterfront...
...that was not the whole story behind the Garden free-for-all. All last fall blood was bad between Jimmy Powers and most of the rest of the usually amiable press corps that covers most of the world's biggest sporting events. Some of this bad blood spilled over a fortnight ago when Editor Powers devoted his Daily News column to a biting parable about "Snow Mike and the Seven Dwarfs," plainly identifiable as Promoter Jacobs, two members of the State boxing commission and five sports writers, among them Mr. Van Every. Fairy-tale-teller Powers related solemnly...
Addressing their stockholders last week the chairmen of the two biggest banks of the U. S. both saw fit to make pointed references to one poignant topic. Said Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Manhattan's Chase National Bank: "Since 1933 the volume of new issues, and especially of stocks, has been a fraction of what it ought to be, and, indeed, of what it was in our last normal financial year, 1923, or 14 years...
...Mindful that when M. M. & M. bought Philadelphia's Box, Crane & Hoist Corp. in 1932 such methods boosted its share of the hoist business from 2.2% to 15% within the five years, Sales Manager William P. Bradbury predicted that 1938 would be his company's biggest year. "In periods of retarded buying," he explained, "we have found that more calls must be made in order to maintain the same sales volume. . . . We share completely Mr. Brady's boundless assurance of the prosperous future of this country...
...authority of the learned or the wise, he has an indignant curiosity that is infectious. There are no satisfactory answers to be found in Stuart Chase. But at least he raises the Question. Five years ago he flung wide the question of "Technocracy." Last week he broached his biggest...