Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leveled. So heavy are these messengers of death that the bombing planes tip to one side and wobble a little as they are released. The city is singularly helpless and defenseless against attacks from the air because the Government's anti-aircraft armament is practically useless. About a dozen machine guns and one-pounders, handled by woefully in expert militiamen, have not brought down a single enemy plane so far, all the claims in Government communiques notwithstanding...
Chapter 1. RKO was formed in October 1928 as a holding company for Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corp., F. B. O. (Film Booking Office) Productions, Inc. and a half-dozen other subsidiaries engaged in vaudeville and cinema businesses. RKO then embarked upon an expansion program, acquiring theatre properties at top prices at a time when the public's desire for vaudeville was diving downward. To speed its entrance into the "talkies," RKO issued Class B stock (500,000 shares), gave it to Radio Corp. of America in exchange for rights to RCA Photophone sound-picture equipment and special considerations from...
...Philadelphia, as in Boston, finance and society tend to merge in a vast accumulation of personal trust funds. There the Stock Exchange and the Racquet Club stand almost cheek by jowl. Last week, to Philadelphians in their clubs and counting rooms came a profound shock. A dozen of the city's best people and biggest money men were indicted for the grossest kind of fraud...
...indictments. The time had come to name names. Promptly Judge Dickinson, 79, for 22 years a member, of the Federal judiciary, ordered the previous indictments made public, issued bench warrants for twelve persons on four counts for using the mails to defraud and two counts of conspiracy. In the dozen were such prominent Philadelphians...
...Stevenson Newhall, president of the Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances on Lives & Granting Annuities, director of a dozen Philadelphia companies. Said he: "If mistakes were made, they were errors of judgment...