Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the 313 U. S. passengers were persons from 20 States: six New Jerseyites, a party of ten college girls mostly from Texas, three geneticists returning from a convention in Edinburgh, four U. S. aircraft engineers who had been assembling U. S. planes for Britain. The sister (Maurine) and brother-in-law (Franklin Dexter) of U. S. Tennist Sarah Palfrey Fabyan were aboard. Since no U. S. lives were lost the incident was far less grave internationally than the sinking of the Lusitania (of 1,198 dead, 124 were Americans), but officials in Washington, D. C. expressed angry concern...
...Brother of the late Willard Huntington Wright,"S. S. Van Dine." *LEONARDO DA VINCI Macmillan...
...closely guarded plant at Long Island City, N. Y., recently bought Waterbury (Conn.) Tool Co. and Vickers, Inc., of Detroit, which manufacture hydraulic pumps and variable speed transmissions. But it is proudest of its biggest and oldest subsidiary, Sperry Gyroscope Co. of Brooklyn and of its English brother, Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd., which has just set up a new factory in the English Midlands, to carry on if its London plant is bombed...
Several inches shorter, three years older, and much richer than his Producer-Brother David (Gone With the Wind), dumpy, belligerent Myron Selznick at 40 is not only Hollywood's No. 1 agent but one of its most influential individuals. He found his career by accident by getting his friend...
...earnings, binds them to five-year contracts. In Hollywood round numbers, the Selznick clients' payroll is annually $10,000,000, the Selznick Co. tithe $1,000,000. But Agent Selznick is also reputed to hold pieces in several rival talent agencies. His other investments include a piece of Brother David's Selznick International Pictures, a race horse named Can't Wait, and stud poker at sickening stakes...