Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...separate British realm. Its ruler was appointed last week by the Emperor, George VI, his choice for Governor of Burma lighting upon Sir Archibald Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Star of India, D. S. O. Also de tached from India and set up last week as a Crown Colony was small, highly strategic Aden, only 80 sq. mi. in area...
Cocking a purposeful eye across the border at John L. Lewis (see p. 17), His Majesty's diligent Crown Prosecutor Oscar Gagnon declared in Montreal last week: "Sitdown strikes are illegal in Canada. If one move is made to break any Canadian law, Lewis or anyone else will be taken into custody...
...christening, Norway's Prince Haraldt six-weeks-old son of Crown Prince Olaf, received a huge, ornate beer mug as the official gift of the Norwegian Parliament. Sniffed Folket, temperance paper: "One would believe that it was a union of brewers and not the Norwegian Parliament that presented such a gift to the Prince. This vulgar object is a gift suitable for a drunkard...
...brief stockholders meetings were held in San Francisco last month to solemnize, after a nine-year engagement, the wedding of two big West Coast corporations. One was Crown Willamette Paper Co., the other Crown Zellerbach Corp. Crown Zellerbach has had stock control of Crown Willamette since 1928 but for nine years both retained their corporate identities. The shares of both were listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The $100,000,000 union left Crown Zellerbach (the married name) the No. 2 U. S. paper company...
With more than one-half of the West Coast's paper business in its pocket, with ten billion feet of reserve pulpwood, with annual capacity of 485,000 tons of paper and vast amounts of boxboard, realigned Crown Zellerbach, like International Paper & Power, is ready-set to cash in on the Boom...