Word: credited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upper Alaska. Aboard was another air veteran-Douglas Aircraft Co.'s Test Pilot E. H. Veblen, who had ferried a DC-3 east for delivery to the Soviet's Amtorg Trading Corp. and was returning to Los Angeles. Another passenger was L. Arthur Doty, 42, Boston credit manager for Texaco, who was flying to Chicago to attend the funeral of his brother Harold, killed a few hours before in a railroad accident...
...last December, ran up against a haymaker from Federal Judge Ferdinand Geiger in Milwaukee. For a year Mr. Jackson's department had been investigating the connection between the Big Three motor-makers (Ford, General Motors, Chrysler) and the Big Four auto-financing companies (General Motors Acceptance Corp., Commercial Credit, Universal Credit Corp.. Commercial Investment Trust). The Assistant Attorney General was trying to get criminal indictments against them for violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. But Judge Geiger discharged the grand jury when he discovered that attorneys for the companies were trying to settle with Robert Jackson...
...returned three sweeping indictments. First was against General Motors, G. M. A. C., General Motors Sales Corp., Alfred P. Sloan Jr., William S. Knudsen, and 17 other General Motors and G. M. A. C. executives. Second was against Chrysler Corp., Chrysler Sales Corp., Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth, Commercial Credit Co., and 18 executives, including Walter P. Chrysler. Third was against Edsel Ford, Ford Motor Co., Universal Credit Corp. and twelve more executives. Maximum penalty for conviction on the indictments of violating the Sherman Act is $5,000 or a year in jail, or both. But the case is not likely...
...practical a nature. The principle behind the rule is certainly sound, but in some cases exceptions might well be made. Every other department in the College opens its graduate courses to well qualified students, and Engineering Sciences should do the same, at least allowing honors candidates credit for one or two. In recent years two or three Undergraduates, having got ahead in their course requirements, have taken graduate courses without credit...
...fire in the cabin by dropping a cigaret. Said he: ''Overcome by realization of the enormity of my carelessness I tried to cover up by starting a fire in the lower deck linen locker, so that by giving the alarm for both fires I would be given credit for watchfulness instead of being blamed...