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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harris Hammond earns $20,000 per year, aside from the income from his inheritance. He is president of Dominguez Oil Fields Co. which earned $2,000,000 last year, and of Laughlin Filter Corp., a small New Jersey company which manufactures centrifuges. In 1928 Mr. Hammond and Philadelphia's Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Diddle Jr. were among the directors of Acoustic Products Co., which later became Sonora Products Corp. of America. When Sonora went bankrupt and Irving Trust Co. became its receiver, that Manhattan bank charged that Sonora's directors had personally used an option owned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Millennium Payment | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...pilot. No. 1 Pilot. Son of a hardware man, Edwin Musick was born in St. Louis in 1894. His parents moved to California when he was 9. Young Edwin had progressed as far as the second year in a Los Angeles high school when he went to watch the Dominguez air races. Enthralled, he and his friends attempted to build a plane, a flimsy contraption which got nine feet, off the ground, pancaked quietly into a puddle. "Ed" Musick retained his absorption in aviation, has engaged in nothing else since. Quitting high school, he took a commercial flying course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Transpacific | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

Feature of the third corrida of the season at the Comayaguela Fair, 50 mi. from Tegucigalpa was the appearance of one Ramiro Dominguez, second-rate Mexican matador. Major Geyer attended in a ringside seat. Attempting to execute a difficult passade, Matador Dominguez became entangled in his cape, slipped, fell prone before the charging animal. Without an instant's hesitation Major Geyer drew his service pistol, dropped the bull with a single bullet between the eyes. The air was rent with cheers for quickwitted Tauricide Geyer, mingled with boos for slovenly Tauromach Dominguez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: Tauricide Geyer | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

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