Word: coeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, to supervise her $200,-ooo suit against Disney Productions, Ltd. and RCA Manufacturing Co., went glucose-voiced Adriana Caselotti, who spoke as Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. She charged breach of contract, said her voice had been used on phonograph records without her consent, that she had been paid a pittance of less than...
...August, zinc sold at 4¾? a Ib. With war, its price rose to 6½? - a rise of 47% which precipitated no end of buying and production for inventory. Then sales began to dry up. Fortnight ago, American Smelting and Refining Co. dropped the price ½? ($10 a ton). Trade pundits guessed that the steel industry-one of the largest consumers of nonferrous metal-would let down production even further after January, and American Metal Market headlined: "The outlook for Metal Prices none too solid...
Tightlipped, hard-plugging John Grant Kelly, publisher of the Walla Walla Union Bulletin, did something about it. He started an experimental canning plant (Walla Walla Canning Co.) to can the region's produce, ship it to big markets in the East...
...Associated directly, but its good operating company, NY PA NJ Utilities Co. (Nypan), is trying to borrow money so that Associated can pay off an $8,589,-980 (8%) bond issue which is due March 15, 1940. Also overdue is $5,780,000 owed the U. S. Treasury by Associated as the balance of an $8,700,000 settlement of a $50,000,000 tax claim. Mange wants RFC to lend NY PA NJ enough to pay off the bonds, pay the taxes; he is also asking for another lump for construction, $26,500,000 in all. The catch...
...great boom had given Associated a few more palmy years, it might have succeeded in merging with another $1,000,000,000 system, Standard Gas and Electric Co. Standard runs 26 operating utilities, among them Pittsburgh's large Duquesne Light Co. and Wisconsin Public Service Co. For years Standard was controlled by Chicago's private utility bankers, H. M. Byllesby and Co. Nowadays, Byllesby plays second fiddle in Standard to Manhattan's up-&-coming, bargain-hunting Syndicateer Victor Emmanuel...