Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury, 61, president of Standard Oil Co. of California; of a heart attack; on board the Grace Liner Santa Paula, in the Panama Canal...
Four years ago, Pan American-Grace Airways had its first ,big South American freight order, a 55-ton shipment. Fortnight ago, the same line signed the largest air express contract on record and last week reported the successful completion of the first dozen bites into the 1,000,000 Ib. of equipment that it has agreed to fly over the Andes into northern Bolivia to reopen a gold mine abandoned two centuries...
...make exclusive portraits for Vogue of his friend the Duchess of Windsor and a visit to his friend Mrs. Harrison ("Best Dressed") Williams at her villa on Capri, slim Cecil Beaton was in Manhattan this week a-tiptoe for the U. S. publication of his Scrapbook.) ± Sure to grace drawing rooms wherever there are bright young things, this rococo collection displays not only smart photographs of Britain's Brightest, from Poet W. H. Auden to Princess Natalie Paley, but gifted sketches of stage decor and costumes, needlepointed notes on cinema stars, which prove that Jean Cocteau was right...
...Saving grace of these circumstances was that brokers' loans last week stood at only $779,000,000, lowest point since April 1935. To businessmen who have wondered whether the current market troubles presage a major catastrophe such as occurred in 1929, this low figure was a bulwark of optimism. It proved that Wall Street credit was not over-extended as it was in 1929 when brokerage loans toted up over $8,000,000,000. Except for this strong argument the Reserve Board would almost certainly not have yielded to the Wall Street demands for lessened Government restriction...
...MERRY, MERRY MAIDENS-Helen Grace Carlisle-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). An ordinary novel about six ordinary maidens, taking them unmerrily from innocent girls-club days through to wistful disillusionment...