Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stavisky scandal. This young girl must have known things. Or perhaps the murder was a warning to silence Deputy Henriot. Checking over their Stavisky files, reporters made a list of tragedy. Since the Bayonne pawnshop swindle was uncovered there have been: Murder: Judge Albert Prince (TIME March 5, et seq.). Suicide: Swindler Alexandre Stavisky (TIME, Jan. 15), Director Emile Blanchard of the Agricultural Service Station Jean Brunschvik, diamond merchant whose name appeared on some Stavisky check stubs (TIME, April 2). Attempted Suicide: Lawyer Raymond Hubert who jumped into the Seine and Henri Hurlaux, Assistant Prosecutor of the Court of Appeal...
Across the snub nose of many a U. S. Army bomber is the proud motto: "Mors et Destrnctio" (Death & Destruction). Last week the Army Air Corps made plans to purchase $30,000,000 worth of Death & Destruction within the next three years. First step toward acquisition of 1,000 of the world's finest fighting aircraft will be the purchase of 80 new high-speed bombers to be delivered in 1935. With contracts to be let by competitive bidding. Army officials expect the new bombers will have a top speed of 250 m.p.h., cruising speed of 220 m.p.h., ability...
Married. Rion Fortescue, sister of Thalia Fortescue Massie (TIME, April 16, et ante) and Daulton Gillespie Viskniskki, son of Col. Guy T. Viskniskki, onetime business manager of the Chicago Daily News; in Washington...
...Creuset company, armament manufacturers with mines, smelters, and foundries scattered through France. He is director of the Banque de I'Union Parisienne, one of whose most profitable sources of business is the financing loans for armaments. In 1920 he founded and became the President of the Union Europeenne Industrial et Financier--a holding company, capitalized at 140,000,000 Frances. Through it Schneider-Creusto controls 182 French companies that manufacture heavy ordnance, machine guns, tanks, shells, ammunition, and warfare chemicals. Out of the $300,000,000 which, at the most conservative guess, represents the annual billing of France's armament...
...independent armament firm is the Ancients Establishments Hotchkiss et Cie, founded by Banjamin Berkelyey Hotchkiss, American engineer and inventor of the Hotchkiss Machine Gun, born in Watertown, Connecticut, in 1826. British, French, and American capital are intermingled in the company now, but the managing director is a self-expatriated ex-ensign of the U. S. Navy. Lawrence Vincent Benet, uncle of Stephen Vincent Benet, the poet. His American citizenship did not stop him from selling tons of guns and other war materials to Japan at the same time that Secretary of Siate Stimson was vainly trying to keep the Japanese...