Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chapter of a Society for the Prevention of the misuse of the name "Fanny." It might prove simpler, however, to have the "Fanny chapters" a subsidiary of the "Johns." (Miss) FANNY PARKER Des Moines, Iowa Diminishing Otter Sirs: Probably like others, I have been amused by the interest and concern aroused in some of your readers by the unhappy condition of the poor little koala in Australia and have heartily seconded Mr. Dow's suggestion that Mrs. Schroeder's $50 be applied to the preservation of American animal and bird life. And now, after having seen yesterday...
...Budapest choristers' songs ranged from the latest works of Hungarian moderns to old folksongs about the Virgin, a farmer boy. a mourning dove. They sang them all in Hungarian, showing a meticulous concern for every phrase. Auditors marveled at the chorus's pitch and perfect time, the way it negotiated the most intricate part-singing without a slip...
Completing the bill is a piece called "Hideaway Girl", which has no right to be amusing, though once in a while it is. The plot, strung together like an united shoestring, concern a girl (Shirley Ross) who pinches pearls at a wedding, eludes the police, picks up a playboy (Robert Cummings) at a filling station, goes to a party at an idealized Seawanbaka yacht club, and winds up, after a good deal of dance and Provencal song, spending the night with him on his toy steamboat. This boat, a fascinating streamlined creature, rather like a cross between the Normandic...
Third place with $398,880 went to Charles W. Guttzeit, little-known president of a little-known specialty concern called Latrobe Electric Steel...
...Washington the biggest factor in the fastest-growing U. S. industry last week filed a registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission for the first public offering of trailer stock. The registrant was Covered Wagon Co., the little Mt. Clemens, Mich, concern which was founded in 1930 by Arthur Georg Sherman (TIME, June 15). Exasperate by the faults and failures of a trailer he bought, Trailerman Sherman built one fc himself, was besieged on the road by s many "trailer tappers" (curious callers that he decided to make his model commercially...