Word: glen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officers elected at the recent meeting for the present year are as follows: vice president, J. S. Williams '32, of Omaha, Neb. (temporarily acting president): secretary, Charles Lane '32, of Glen Ridge, N. J.; and treasurer, W. L. West '32, of St. Paul, Minn. Members of the executive committee, as announced last month, are: J. B. Jackson '32, Gilbert Mottla '32, Louis Perry '32. On the play reading committee are: O. V. Wootten '32, O. Z. Whitehead '34, Asa Phillips...
...Last week Detroit Aircraft Corp. delivered to the Army its bid for fulfillment of that plan: a "cleaned up" Lockheed with new landing gear devoid of all but two exposed struts; a cowled Wasp engine with supercharger. Speed claimed: 210 m.p.h.- "fastest transport plane in the world." To Commander Glen Kidston, rich British sportsman, Detroit Aircraft was to ship this week "the most expensive single- motored plane ever built in the U. S."-a special Lockheed, price $36,000-for "commuting" between Commander Kidston's London home and his plantations near Mount Kenya, Africa...
...matter of production, PRC is one of the two largest anthracite mining companies. Glen Alden Coal Co. is the other, but Glen Alden carefully withholds figures that might settle the question of production primacy. PRC has underground reserves of 2,700,000,000 tons, which amounts to one-third of all known anthracite reserves in the U. S. And its average annual production of slightly under 10,000,000 tons constitutes one-eighth of the U. S. total. Its workers number...
...John Rogers Maxwell, Nannie Inman Brokaw, and 25 other rich Long Islanders obtained orders requiring Tax Commissioner John F. Neafsey to show cause why they should not get their taxes lowered in Nassau and Kings counties. Last year John Pierpont Morgan obtained a $32,000 tax reduction on his Glen Cove properties. Declared Commis sioner Neafsey: "[this fight] to prevent the millionaires, who own two-thirds of the town^from putting the burden of tax ation on the small property owners . . . [will be carried] to the highest court of the land...
...important anthracite fields* lapses Aug. 31. For three hot weeks in Manhattan a Union committee of six led by John Llewellyn Lewis, president of United Mine Workers of America struggled in secret session with an operators' committee of six led by William W. Inglis of Glen Alden Coal Co. to negotiate a new agreement. Last week the two committees emerged in friendly fellowship with a new contract for hard-coal mining which each acclaimed as a guarantee of long industrial peace. The new agreement, to run until April 1, 1936, was a miners' victory. Mr. Lewis...