Word: christensen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for divorce in Trenton, N. J. last week was President Peter C. Christensen of Button Corp. of America, his wife charging that he had lavished a small fortune on a blonde artists' model, asking $1,000 per week alimony. Given this new idea of his wealth, Mr. Christensen's 400 employes promptly decided that he could afford to pay them better wages, walked out on strike. Up in a big black limousine drove Mrs. Christensen to cheer on the strikers, march for an hour in their picket line. Said Mr. Christensen, peering from behind his office curtains...
What Ballet Master George Balanchine and his collaborator Paul Tchelitchev offered was the most inept production that present-day operagoers have witnessed on the Metropolitan stage. The bereaved Orpheus was personified by Lew Christensen, a tall, strapping young man from Portland, Ore., who wore black trunks, black mitts, a black cape and a lyre on his back, expressed his sorrow by thrusting his fists into the air, swaying before a funereal mound which could easily have covered scores of Eurydices. Muscular William Dollar, a native of St. Louis, leaped into the picture as Amor (Love), wearing white tights and great...
...states have made alcohol mixtures mandatory. In the U. S. alcoholic gasoline is a subject of controversy among fuel chemists, their views depending on whether their allegiance is to farm or refinery. Completely contradictory statements on alcohol blends were uttered from the same platform last week by Leo Martin Christensen of the Farm Chemurgic Council and Dr. Gustav Egloff of Universal Oil Products...
...Christensen: Alcohol-gasoline blends distributed in the Midwest during the past three years have met with excellent consumer response. Better mileage, improved acceleration, practical elimination of gum and carbon deposition, smoother and more pleasing engine operation have been . . . commonly reported...
...Christensen: Alcohol-gasoline blends are no more corrosive to any engine part than is gasoline...