Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Completing what he called "the toughest week" since March 4, President Roosevelt returned from Washington to Hyde Park to continue his vacation. He again commented on the height of the corn as he drove in the gate, said it had grown considerably during his absence. Like his corn, his Recovery Program was last week rapidly approaching full growth. He had signed the oil, steel and lumber codes, thereby bringing three of the nation's largest basic industries under the Blue Eagle in a single week. He was not surprised to hear that Administrator Johnson hoped to round...
...down to vice chairman to make way for Mr. Cord and Lou Manning became chairman of the executive committee. Venerable President Clinton Lloyd Bardo stayed on to build the ships. Andrew William Mellon founded New York Shipbuilding in 1899 (see p. 47). Astute, he sold it out at the height of the Wartime shipbuilding boom. After the War when marine construction dwindled almost to nil, it branched into electrical equipment under license agreements with the famed Swiss firm of Brown, Boveri & Co. Ltd. In 1925 it changed its name to American Brown Boveri Electric Corp. Diversification proved to be illadvised...
...public. In 1908 old Thomas Mellon died on his 95th birthday but he had long outlived his money-making days-Son Andrew and Son Dick, who worked with him, were at the height of their powers, building up the Mellon banks, building up Gulf Oil, building Aluminum Co. Patent struggles had threatened their aluminum monopoly but they bought out contenders whom they could not beat at law. As their patents expired they fortified their monopoly by other means-acquired all the available bauxite deposits in the U. S. and South America, pre-empted cheap waterpower sites at Niagara...
...comedy which can take its audience by storm is as rare as it is refreshing, but Mr. Osgood Perkins and Miss. Lora Baxter can safely be said to have achieved that lonely height in their current production at the Tremont Theatre in Boston...
First to arrive was Brother David, the oldest and shaggiest. At that time Gloria Swanson had just married a French Marquis. Pouting blonde Mae Murray, then at the height of her career, decided that she too could afford a title. She took as her fourth husband Prince David Mdivani. With David married. Brother Serge, the handsomest, promptly arrived, to be snapped up by Pola Negri...