Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Denmark refused Transamerican Airlines concessions for bases on its Eskimo colony, Greenland (TIME, April 18). That this implied a breakdown of the project was denied by company officials; negotiations would be continued, they said. But the Parliament of the Kingdom of Iceland (whose king is big King Christian X of Denmark) did not refuse to grant a 75-year franchise to Transamerican when Judge Gudmunder Crimson of Rugby, N. Dak., who in 1930 represented his State at the millennial of the founding of the Icelandic parliament, intervened. Judge Grimson went to Copenhagen to plead with the King...
...most studious of criticisms were voiced in Manhattan where a Round Table Conference on Utility Regulation was being held by almost 100 commission members and regulation students. Finance Professor James Cummings Bonbright of Columbia University, Secretary of the Power Authority of the State of New York, spoke on "The Breakdown of the Public Utility Holding Company." Utilitymen read his speech with keen interest for they knew Professor Bonbright to be a cousin of the late William Prescott Bonbright and of Irving W. Bonbright, co-founders of Bonbright & Co., utility bankers...
...gasoline costs 35? to 40? a gallon, said Gustav Egloff of Chicago, too high for all but a few districts in the U. S., but not too high for countries a long distance from gasoline sources. Other breakdown products of cottonseed oil include Diesel engine oil, coke, gases, water. Certain of the gases can be converted into alcohol, anti-freeze materials. Museums. No community of more than 50,000 in the U. S., Canada or Great Britain lacks a museum of some kind. The U. S. has about 1400 museums of which 300 are devoted to Science and Industry...
...Neill Kane, 71, much-publicized country surgeon who performed upon himself an appendectomy, a herniotomy (TIME, Jan. 18); of pneumonia; in Kane, Pa. Died. Samuel M. Curwen, 73, president of J. G. Brill Co. (trolley cars), director of many a potent U. S. corporation; of a general breakdown; in Haverford, Pa. Died. William Thompson Graham, 81, a founder (with the late Daniel G. Reid. "Tin Plate King'') and onetime president of American Can Co.; of pneumonia after long illness; in Manhattan...
...nearby. No one heard it except Ivar Kreuger, the "Swedish Match King," the self-made colossus of Scandinavian finance. Matchman Kreuger was putting a bullet into his heart for business reasons (see p. 45) and for human reasons. His nerves were drawn so taut (he had suffered a nervous breakdown recently in New York) that to release the strain was welcome, sweet. His physician had warned him the day before that his heart would not stand much more. "M. Kreuger is sleeping," said the concierge of the apartment about 1:30 p.m. when Vice President Krister Littorin of Swedish Match...