Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lockheed, Curtiss-Wright, Martin, North American Aviation all withdrew from the competition for reasons of their own. Secret plans for "dream planes" were, however, submitted last week by Boeing, Consolidated, Douglas, Sikorsky. With a grand flare of publicity came drawings from the ninth firm, self-invited Seversky, which suggested that the inventive Russian had out-dreamed them...
When Mr. Hearst named him trustee last summer, Mr. Shearn called in the eminently respectable Manhattan law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb, finally accepted its advice to scotch wild rumors by making the trusteeship known publicly. And in October, Trustee Shearn set up a supreme council of top-ranking Hearst executives: Thomas J. White, chief of the Hearst organization and liaison man with "The Chief"; Harry M. Bitner, general manager of Hearst newspapers; Richard E. Berlin, publisher of Hearst magazines; Joseph V. Connolly, head of features, wire services and radio; Martin F. Huberth, real-estate adviser; F. E. Hagelberg...
...crockery or failure-Richard J. Daly, who pleaded guilty to hypothecating $150,000 in customers' securities last June; two partners of Jesse Hyman & Co. convicted of grand larceny together with William F. Enright, who had charge of the security box of Winthrop, Mitchell & Co., after this reputable firm discovered Enright had lent some $2,000,000 of its customers' funds to the Hyman partners; the floor partner of Thomas & Griffith, suspended from dealing on the Exchange for three years because the firm had over-hypothecated customers' funds, but not prosecuted because it was able to return...
Mexico is backward and primitive, but Mexican Chavez is the most futuristically minded of contemporary musicians. He has a firm faith that the development of electrically controlled instruments will bring about a musical golden age. In a recent book,* he predicted the invention of vast music-creating engines, envisioned a musical art in which present-day musical instruments and "interpretive" musicians would no longer be necessary. What this music of the future would sound like, and why anyone should want to create it or listen to it, Prophet Chavez left to his readers' imagination...
...breeding mainly. The Austrian Chancellor's entourage considered it in bad taste that a high German officer of Hitler's staff was wearing a decoration not enameled but blazing with precious stones, such as would be worn only on the greatest occasions of State. After luncheon, dignified, firm Dr. Schuschnigg stood up as best he could for Austria's rights, was obliged to accept, and later carried out to the letter, a hard bargain which nonetheless left Austria fully sovereign. Notably he was forced to take into the Austrian Cabinet as Minister of Interior an Austrian Nazi...