Word: foils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a turn at making gunpowder canisters during the War, Nephew Richard organized U. S. Foil Co. to supply tin foil to the tobacco industry, with his family's orders as a logical backlog. By the time Libby Holman married his first cousin, Nephew Richard had branched into thermostats and Eskimo Pies and Reynolds Metals had succeeded to the business of U. S. Foil. Today Reynolds Metals is a $12,000,000 corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange but U. S. Foil, now simply a holding company, owns about 55% of its stock and also controls Eskimo...
...list of U. S. corporations which in the past five years have been not only able but willing to raise new capital for expansion. It marketed a $5,000,000 issue of preferred stock. "We have a number of new developments which might surpass the volume of our metallic foil business," President Reynolds declared. "One of three new products alone could possibly . . . require as much capital as we are now raising...
...corn, sugar beets, asters, dahlias et al. was found by Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel to be carried from plant to plant by a small insect called the leafhopper. Dr. Kunkel also discovered that the leafhopper very rarely flew more than three or four feet above the earth. Obvious leafhopper foil: a 4-ft. screen fence. In early autumn a plot of asters thus protected was only 20% diseased whereas 80% of the flowers just outside the fence were damaged. Last week Dr. Kunkel, now on the Rockefeller Institute staff, reported to a meeting of bacteriologists, pathologists and immunologists in Manhattan...
...promises to spare his life if Lady Blakeney will help him unmask the Scarlet Pimpernel. Lady Blakeney does so, but when she learns that the Pimpernel is Sir Percy, she has a fever of remorse. She follows Sir Percy to France, gets there in time to see him neatly foil a firing squad...
...always, the professional is the foil of the amateur, and Mr. Gleason continually tries to claim responsibility for the achievements of Miss Oliver's sleuthing. Although the picture is entertaining, it will probably prove too easy for mystery-lovers who pride themselves on their ability to spot the murderer...