Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final promotion went to Bill Coleman, a center last year who has been shifted to guard, who appears to have a good chance to push Dave Clueck, the only guard with experience, out of the top position flanking Russell's right. At left guard Nick Mellon, a light but capable Senior, won his "red-shirt" at the opening of the practice sessions...
...Philadelphia musician, proposed a summer season of translated opera at Atlantic City's Steel Pier, the Pier's President, Frank Gravatt, was leery of it. But Director Falk went ahead with his plan, put on Pagliacci and one act of Boris Godounoff in English. The double bill, given in one of the gigantic Pier's five theatres, went over so well that opera in English became a permanent feature of Atlantic City's summer-season...
...years ago, when Congress Cigar Co.'s Son & Heir Bill Paley became CBS's 27-year-old president, it was a puny network. Although irreverent young employes stealthily called him Pale Billy (purely a trick of transposition, for he likes hot countries, bright sunlight, is usually healthily bronzed), in three months he tightened CBS's contracts with its affiliates, gathered 22 more stations into his network, refused to sell CBS to Paramount Publix Corp. for $1,500,000. Nine months later he sold Paramount Publix a half interest for $5,000,000, within three years bought...
When the Freethinkers' congress (first to be held in England in 50 years) was announced last April. Lord Glasgow and 70 M. P.s unsuccessfully backed a Blasphemy Bill especially designed to outlaw it. The Home Secretary was petitioned to ban it. Estimates of the amount of Moscow gold backing the "atheists" ranged from 150,000 to 14,000,000 rubles. Arthur Cardinal Hinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, organized a March of Atonement in which 150,000 Catholic men would walk this week from Southwark to Westminster Cathedral. Said he: "The religious leaders of this land cannot be held...
Lane-Wells Co., 208,006 shares of common stock at $15.25 a share. Back in Depression I, two middle-aged engineers named Bill Lane and Walt Wells, down to their last $500, perfected a gun with which they could shoot through the steel-&-cement well-casing of dry or abandoned oil wells at levels thought to be oil-bearing. Since then they have turned a pretty penny ($590,814 net in 1937, $310,458 to June 1938). Of last week's issue, floated to pay off loans and finance expansion, 58,006 shares were new securities, 150,000 were...