Word: holder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officials of Travelers Insurance Co. were disturbed last week. News was out that an unknown policy holder had threatened to commit suicide unless the company granted him a loan equal to one-third the face value of his policy. Warning the company that his policy was between $25,000 an'' $200,000, the holder directed Travelers to reply through the public notice column of the New York Times with the message: "Status?Proposal and conditions accepted. Signed: Zelevart." Though "Status" represented himself as a man who had frequently borrowed and paid off much larger sums but who had fallen...
...Boonville, Mo., including a 408-ft. lift span, world's longest, which can be raised vertically to give clearance to river traffic, 11) The world's biggest all-welded bridge, 161 ft. long at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, over the Skoda Works' railroad yards. The previous record-holder was the 134-ft. bridge at Chicopee Falls, Mass...
Last week Standard of California closed this venture by selling its 90% voting control of Pacific Public Service to Pacific ias & Electric Co. for an undisclosed price. Pacific Lighting, holder of the remaining 10%, also sold...
What the people in the University of California's new Edwards Stadium hoped to see in the 100-yd. dash was the rubber race between Frank Wykoff of Southern California, intercollegiate champion in 1931, joint holder of the world's record (9.5 sec.) and Bob Kiesel, University of California sophomore, who lost one race to Wykoff this year, then beat him in the California Intercollegiates. Wykoff won both his heats with nonchalance, looking backwards for the last 30 yards. Kiesel, who had said he would not compete for a place on this year's Olympic team because...
Modernist Architect William Lescaze showed a metal ash tray and a flower holder...