Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western Pacific earned enough to cover its fixed charges ($3,634,000 last year). Since 1936 four reorganization plans have been presented by interested parties, one of them being by Chairman James. None satisfied ICC, which finally intervened with a plan of its own-first time it had ever taken such action with so important a railroad. Western Pacific's capitalization now will be reduced from $150,597,000 to $93,726,517, fixed charges to $511,001. This will be accomplished by wiping out the equity of stockholders and claims of unsecured creditors making them bear most...
...kept the price bowling uphill. The Copper Institute's September report showed that stocks on hand, both in the U. S. and abroad, were at the year's low, consumption at the year's high. Foreign orders for rearmament last month were 137,298 tons, highest ever. In the U. S., rearmament plans capped a business revival. And so by last week the domestic price had climbed to 11.25? a pound, the export price...
...Hirschmann decided to launch his own musical organization, founded the New Friends of Music Inc. Scheduling a series of concerts devoted exclusively to chamber music, music's New Friends offered no stars but gave steady subscribers a chance to hear all the important chamber music Beethoven and Brahms ever wrote...
...drugstore cowboy but a strapping 210-pounder born only 31 years ago on a Dakota County farm, Harold Stassen worked his way through the University of Minnesota Law School, for three years as a Pullman conductor. Aged 23, he was elected Dakota County attorney and has held that job ever since. Blue-eyed, ruddy, with a contagious smile and natural friendliness as strenuous as that of Kentucky's Happy Chandler, Stassen soon became a force among Minnesota's Young Republicans. This year he led their test of strength against the Old Republicans, easily overwhelmed Old Guarder Martin Nelson...
...swank Oakmont Country Club and is known throughout the Negro world as: 1) publisher of the weekly Pittsburgh Courier (circulation: 145,000), 2) national chairman of the Negro division of the Democratic Party for the election of 1932, 3) former occupant of one of the highest Federal offices ever held by a Negro (Special Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General, 1933-35). His name: Robert Lee Vann...