Word: hispanos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wages. In 1938 he turned up in the Lincolnshire town of Grantham as works manager of the Hispano-Suiza 20-mm. cannon works (later the British Manufacture and Research Co.). With him Kendall brought a picaresque legend: a Yorkshire miller's son, he had run away to sea at 14, made $5,000 helping police raid opium dens along China's Yangtze River, run a waterfront cabaret in Shanghai. Eventually he ended up in Philadelphia as a steeplejack. Later he went to work for Philadelphia's Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. He rapidly rose to Budd...
Editor Green broke in on Variety as an 18-year-old collegian. Today, like all the muggs, he lives partly in a nostalgic past, haunted by Silverman's wise-guy gentleness, his scoops, his Hispano-Suizas. Variety labors to be in the know about the future of television and 16-mm.-film theaters, so that if radio or the movies go the way of vaudeville, it will still be the journalistic handmaiden of entertainment...
...captained the hockey and baseball teams (playing shortstop), was elected president of the student council, joined Hasty Pudding, Phoenix Club and Signet Society, among others. He developed a passion for foreign cars. He owned, in turn, a Mercedes, Voisin, Panhard-Levassor, Hispano-Suiza. After graduation, with only average grades, he put in a short tour of duty in the postwar army. Then his father's friend George Lee gave him a job in his investment banking house of Lee, Higginson...
Promptly he packed the fifth floor of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, department store with two and a half acres of medieval armor, Hispano-Moresque pottery, Dutch masters, and other art objects too numerous to mention. By last month the total sales of these and other Hammer enterprises were near $15 million...
...Farrars and Jeritzas of the past, she has managed to be both a voice and a glamor girl. She is perhaps the only opera singer in the U.S. who receives emerald necklaces as casual presents from admirers, and certainly the only one who has gone on tour in a Hispano-Suiza complete with French maid and chauffeur...