Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Georgia license, acting on stoolpigeon information, followed a car with three men in it to the middle of Williamsburg bridge. Suddenly the pursued car stopped. The men jumped out, began throwing things over the railing into the river. When the gang was subdued, four gold bars with the Brooklyn firm's mark on them were found in their car. The three prisoners had penitentiary records. They incriminated two others. Police revealed that the men, suspected of staging three other similar raids since last spring, were tossing their loot away because an inaccurate test had led them to believe...
Engaged. Elisabeth Morrow, 29, eldest daughter of the late U. S. Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; and Aubrey Niel Morgan, member of the Welsh banking firm of David Morgan, Ltd., founded by his grandfather. Miss Morrow, who was once reported engaged to her brother-in-law Charles Augustus Lindbergh and last year to Rev. Clyde H. Roddy of North Arlington, N. J., met Banker Morgan in 1930 when she accompanied her father to the London Naval Conference...
...London it was revealed that in 1926 Samuel Insull sponsored British Walker Vehicle Co. which made 20 chassis, sold four. British creditors hoped they might discover funds in the mysterious Dragon Investment Co., Ltd., an Insull trust. Dragon's directors are mostly clerks in the big law firm of Slaughter & May, solicitors for the Insulls...
Seatrain's counterpart by land appeared last week when the Alton, now a unit of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, was permitted to carry loaded trucks on flat cars between Chicago and East St. Louis. Trucks up to 20 tons are accepted, loaded and unloaded at the truck firm's expense. The transportation costs between $30 and $60 depending on weight, is slightly cheaper than the cost of driving the truck over highways. This service was hailed as "the first move of the western steam railroads to cooperate with trucking companies." Several months ago Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee (electric) offered...
Jesse Louis Lasky who recently resigned from Paramount Publix Corp. in a huff, announced he has formed his own production firm, will make eight pictures a year for Fox Film Corp...