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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little known is the fact that elephants like beer, will drink it whenever they get a chance. **Whose engagement was announced last week to Mrs. Placidia White Knowlton of Thomasville...
...their tails, which make up four-fifths of the eel's body. If a man or animal touches an electric eel, he will be mildly shocked. But if he were brash enough to grab both the eel's head and tail at the same time, he might get a 500-volt charge. These electric eels, which grow to 8 ft., 50 lb., swim about in stagnant pools, paralyze small fish by discharging electricity, can keep their prey unconscious for several hours, gobble them up at will. The uneaten fish recover from the paralysis unharmed...
...trick to be of interest to insurance companies and industrial corporations. The gadget makes use of polarized light, which is light filtered so that it vibrates in only one plane. If light filtered through a polarizing crystal encounters a second crystal whose cleavage plane* is turned perpendicularly, it cannot get through. But if the second crystal is rotated until the cleavage plane is parallel to the light waves, the light is then transmitted...
...brother lent him $500,000. In 1930, same year he became president of the Exchange, Richard Whitney began misusing securities of the New York Yacht Club. By 1931, Depression had nicked him so badly that he used his position as a director of the Corn Exchange Bank to get an unsecured loan from it for $500,000. Morgan-Partner Francis Bartow happened to learn of this and arranged to have it exchanged for a $500,000 unsecured loan from J. P. Morgan...
...legal switchings of its portfolio. With the securities in his hands and creditors on every side, Broker Whitney seemingly could not resist the opportunity to hypothecate them for personal loans as he was also doing with the securities of other customers. When Governor Edward H. H. Simmons tried to get the securities back, Dick Whitney stalled for time. Finally Mr. Simmons, who had preceded Whitney as president of the Exchange, forced the issue, got some inkling of the situation. Dick Whitney then asked for time to see his brother George. Mr. Simmons also saw George, who by that time...