Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Habitually gloomy on the subject of world trade is Singer Manufacturing Co.'s venerable President Sir Douglas Alexander. At annual stockholders' meetings held in Manhattan by Singer in September, because it takes accountants eight months to make a report on Singer's outlandish business, Sir Douglas has...
From Singer representatives in Spain, he said, no word had been received about possible damage to Singer sales units or the Singer Building in Madrid. The company has called off all Spanish shipments. Sir Douglas did not say how much business Singer did in Spain last year.
The trip was the inaugural flight of The Mercury, first through transcontinental sleeplane. Flown by American Airlines once nightly in each direction with big new Douglas Sleeper transports, it makes the westbound journey in 17 hr., 41 min., the eastbound in 15 hr., 50 min.
Edgar Douglas Adrain, of the University of Cambridge, Physiology. Nobel Prize winner.
Douglas Berry Copland, of the University of Melbourne, Commerce.