Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guild also flatly refuted the charge that Drinker holds stock in the Collins company. "My client has never held any stock in Collins' firm; the sole remuneration he has gained from his invention was royalties from the sales of the first Drinker model," Guild said. This charge had been circulated by several magazines and newspapers...
What British newspapers called the "unprecedented bluster" of Commissar Litvinov's speech made Britons wonder if after all the Soviet Government might not have some real evidence against the arrested engineers, particularly when two other engineers of the same firm arrested on the same charges at the same time, had been so promptly released. Proceeding cautiously, the Government planned to introduce in the House of Commons a bill empowering the Government to declare an embargo on April 17; but about the Moscow trial the Prime Minister would say nothing "because to do so would not be in interest...
...surprise, Rumania last week had a scandal in which King Carol had no part. In 1930 Rumania had a war scare over Soviet Russian machinations in Bessarabia (TIME, March 3, 1930), rushed to buy guns and ammunition. A French firm offered to supply them for $45,000,000. Instead Rumania bought the supplies from Czechoslovakia's great munitions firm, Skoda,* for $90,000,000. France, big sister of both Rumania and Czechoslovakia, was surprised and hurt...
...beat ahorse entered by Mrs. Clark's dearest rival-her ruddy, jolly, loud-voiced husband. His entrant at Aintree-even less highly regarded than Kellsboro Jack, who had trained badly in the spring and was backed by only a few people who had faith in the firm predictions of Mrs. Clark and her trainer-Ivor Anthony-was Chadd's Ford. Chadd's Ford finished next to last...
Fourth great Milwaukee brewery is Miller, of which Fred Miller is president, with the management in the hands of stocky, black-headed W. H. Kraft whose father has been for many years brewmaster, whose brother is chemist of the firm...