Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some of the guns were without dials because the firm which made them went bankrupt. The guns sent from the practice camps in some cases became separated from their instruments. Further, they were sent into action without overhaul. Some predictors were out of order. Electric storage batteries were in some cases run down, although other units at the same time had spare batteries and charging plants. Certain units did not draw their full complement of stores and some stores were found to be deficient...
...will buy used cars. For the guidance of these a voice of experience from Philadelphia, that of 40-year-old Dealer Martin H. Bury, last week expounded the why, where, when, what, how and how much of used car buying in a 44-page, 25? booklet published by his firm, Bury & Holman...
...inform Her Majesty that she has become the senior partner of the firm of Victoria and De Lesseps." These words, spoken by Disracli (Miles Mander) as he becomes Prime Minister, are the climax of "Suez," which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan. Yet if the doughty express, veiled, escorted, guarded, had personally visited her "ditch," she could scarcely have received a less realistic picture of how it was built than Darry I. F. Zanuck gives the American public. The workmen, the soldiers, the treachery of the Arabs and have of the simoon are all shown, but the audience...
Last year a San Francisco judge found him guilty of pocketing emoluments of some $300,000 from a loan his bank made to a firm reselling Government steel after the War (TIME, Sept. 6, 1937, et seq.). This year another judge ordered him to pay damages of $651,579 for selling at too low a price some oil lands belonging to certain Lazard Frères heirs in 1915-17. Although he has appealed both cases. Herbert Fleishhacker last week cited them in turning in his resignation. "I feel," said he, "that the best interests of the bank...
...succeed President Frothingham the I. B. A. chose a banker from as far away from Wall Street as possible - sunburned, zestful Jean Carter Witter of the California firm of Dean Witter and Co. At 46, Jean Witter is the crack security salesman of the Pacific Coast. Said Banker Witter last week: "I should like to put down as the first item on our schedule for 1938-39 - work with the SEC in carrying out the objectives of the securities legislation it is obligated to administer...