Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canadian coast patrol boat Givenchy landed at Nanaimo, B.C. last week with the laconic statement that, for the benefit of fishermen, 2,200 sea lions had been killed during a three-week cruise. The Givenchy'?, crew used rifles (borrowed from the Navy) instead of machine guns, because a certain amount of sharpshooting is necessary. The carcasses were left where they fell...
...BACHE, well-known Jewish financier and philanthropist, head of the firm of the same name in Manhattan, organized two Canadian corporations. To one of them, the Wenonah† Development Co. Ltd., he transferred $13,000,000 of assets in 1930. Thereafter the income from this money escaped the high personal surtaxes which Mr. Bache would have had to pay if he received it directly. From his company he borrowed $2,300,000 in 1932 and in 1934 the interest which he then paid the company canceled out his remaining U. S. income, thereby making him virtually income-tax-free...
...Army Engineers Corps, invented the Schick electric dry shaver manufactured in New Haven, drew big royalties. In 1933 he formed a Bahama corporation to receive his royalties, thereby making a saving in taxes. In 1935 by special dispensation of his friend Prime Minister Bennett of Canada he became a Canadian citizen, without the customary five years' steady residence. He formed more Bahama companies and transferred a big block of securities to them and could not be stopped in any way from doing so because he was no longer a U. S. citizen...
...plane on a 5,858-mi. non-stop circuit of the Soviet Arctic. Because Levanevsky's failure on a transpolar flight two years ago brought unfavorable publicity, this year's venture was kept a dark secret long after the red and grey plane left Moscow. Then a Canadian radio station plucked the news from the ether that: "We are three hours from the Pole, flying nicely...
...fake claimant, Founder Root was deposed, formed the rival order of Woodmen of the World, which now has assets of $116,000,000, insurance in force of over $415,000,000. Modern Woodmen dwarfs its younger rival, however. Today it has 10,000 lodges in 46 States and four Canadian provinces. Only Missouri and Massachusetts spurn it. Membership has been as high as 1,182,756, is now about 500,000. More than $545,000,000 has been paid to beneficiaries of deceased members, some $25,000,000 to living members. Insurance now in force is $631,802,225. About...