Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conrad Veidt) is an air hero riding the crest of his publicity. His best friend Captain Droste (Leslie Fenton) is sunk in the obscurity of an inventor's workroom. Ellissen uses his position to call attention to Droste's plan for a seadrome, persuades the Lennartz shipbuilding firm to construct it. Claire Lennartz (Jill Esmond) also falls a victim to his persuasiveness until he starts on a non-stop flight around the world. Then she switches her affection to Droste who sails off in his completed seadrome. When Ellissen reappears, he concludes that Claire and Droste have been...
...ships. Andrew William Mellon founded New York Shipbuilding in 1899 (see p. 47). Astute, he sold it out at the height of the Wartime shipbuilding boom. After the War when marine construction dwindled almost to nil, it branched into electrical equipment under license agreements with the famed Swiss firm of Brown, Boveri & Co. Ltd. In 1925 it changed its name to American Brown Boveri Electric Corp. Diversification proved to be illadvised. In 1931 it sold its electrical business to Allis-Chalmers, resumed its old name, began to make money. Profits jumped from...
...They got their father, who owns a coal business in The Bronx, so interested in the sport that he became a vice-commodore of the Larchmont Yacht Club. Olin left M. I. T. after one year to help start, with a friend not much older than himself, the firm of Sparkman & Stephens, naval architects. Roderick got a job in a shipyard. Since Olin had the Dorade built from his own specifications in 1930, both of them have spent almost as much time on the water as at work. Consequently the Dorade, smallest of the fleet of well-known ocean-going...
...Gulf of Mexico." As to Kansas City Southern itself he added: "We will make a railroad out of it if we can get co-operation." Last week cash looked better than a railroad to President Joyce.* Great Western sold its minority control to the New York Stock Exchange firm of Paine, Webber & Co. Gloated President Joyce to newsmen: "I won't say how much we made on the deal but we made money...
...been dislodged from the main convert and had rolled out of bounds. It was this that was causing the silver medalist's distress and despondency. Like all prize pigs who take their career seriously, Empress of Blandings hated to miss anything that might be eaten and converted into firm flesh...