Word: bror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AFRICAN HUNTER-Bror von Blixen-Finecke-Knopf...
...Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke is a distant cousin of Denmark's King Christian. His first wife is a middle-aged woman named Ellen, who divorced him in 1921, wrote best-selling Seven Gothic Tales in 1934 under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. Baron Bror's second wife is a pert, pretty, English girl of 28, named Eva, who spends most of her time seeking adventure. During one long trek alone in Africa, her automobile broke down. She had to be pushed by natives for 32 days. In Ethiopia last year she watched...
Masonite was jockeyed into a fine position for revival in building by winning a patent infringement suit in 1933 against Bror Dahlberg's Celotex Corp., No. 1 U. S. wallboard makers. Mr. Dahlberg makes his board of sugar cane fibre. He found, as Inventor Mason did, that hard board could be made from materials other than wood. By giving his sugar cane a little more heat and pressure, he too got a dense, rigid board. But Masonite sued and won, which meant that if anyone wanted hard board they had to buy Presdwood...
...Chicago police arrested Bror H. Petersen, petty swindler, who had married four wives in one month by giving them $500 promissory notes, telling them that he had inherited an ancestral estate in Sweden on condition that he bring back a wife. Said Bror H. Petersen: "I married those girls looking for the right one and decided pretty quick that I didn't want to take Madeline or Loretta or Mabel back with me to the ancestral estates. But Lydia! Ah, there's the girl...
...deposits to $17,000,000. Receiverships. Two notable companies passed into the hands of receivers last week: Celotex Co. of Chicago and Russell Manufacturing Co. of Middletown. Celotex is a big maker of wallboard and similar products, using the stalks of sugar-cane for pulp. Its president is Bror Gustave Dahlberg. In early 1930 he sent each shareholder a personal telegram urging him not to "sacrifice" his holdings at the then current price ($50 a share). Russell Manufacturing makes automobile brake lining (Rusco), clutch disks, aero cloth, lines, rings and cords, safety belts, acid proof battery covers, surface tape. During...