Word: brought
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sold $35,000,000 worth of stock and with the proceeds bought up some 80 aeronautical properties, including 9,100 miles of airlines. These were presently lumped into American Airways. As might have been expected, the conglomeration had an operating loss of $3,400,000 in 1930. Successive losses brought continued shake-ups in management until 1932, when Plunger Errett Lobban Cord got control after a spectacular proxy battle...
...Smith arranged the five-year transition with the help of two vice presidents, Ralph Damon and Charles A. Rheinstrom. Brought from the presidency of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., energetic Ralph Damon modernized and standardized American's fleet, which now consists of 50 Douglas "flagships," and has the magnificent operating record of no passenger fatalities since January 1936. High-powered Charles Rheinstrom pepped up American's sales technique, invented airline "scrip," since adopted by the major domestic lines. In advertising, C.R. Smith and his two first lieutenants were equally progressive. One of their headlines: "Fewer Husbandless Nights...
Engaged. Aerielle Frazer, 21, pretty Toledo heiress (Willys-Overland) and post-debutante (she was brought out in swank-stuffed Newport); and Michael Strutt, 24, second son of British Lord Belper...
Charioteer. Alfred Barr was then 27, an associate professor of fine arts at Wellesley. Born in Detroit, brought up in Baltimore, son of a Presbyterian minister who had a taste for medieval art, he had majored in science until his last year at Princeton, intending to become a paleontologist. This training served him well when he came to deal with the data of Dada. After graduate work in art and archeology, he taught at Vassar, Harvard, Princeton, and launched at Wellesley in 1926 an ambitious course in modern art. It involved "driving a seven-or eight-wheeled chariot," handling...
Still plugging their once-sensational theory that economics makes history what it is, the Beards explore the underground economic forces that brought about Coolidge prosperity. With the aloof amusement of two moralists who stayed sober while the rest of the world got tight, they investigate the causes of the crash, the closing of the banks, the New Deal and government by Brain Trust...