Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Matthew Verity of American Rolling Mill Co. Son of a circuit-riding Methodist minister, Steelman Verity was born 72 years ago in East Liberty, Ohio, married his boss's daughter, was Armco's president for 30 years, until he made way in 1930 for Charles R. Hook, Armco's present president.† George Verity's late years have been full of honors. Miami University in Oxford, Ohio gave him an LL.D. degree in 1925. Last year Middletown, Ohio, Armco's home town, declared a "Verity Day," with parades, public banquets, and a picnic...
...fifteen minutes, from 11:15 until 11:30 last night, the Hasty Pudding Club broadcast song hits and skits from the dining room of the clubhouse over a nation-wide hook-up. And it was more than just a coast-to-coast affair, for the family of Benjamin F. Dillingham '39 was enjoying the reception in Honolulu...
...American Airlines pilot about to take off from Newark Airport with a load of passengers in a Douglas DC-3, discovered in time's nick that his controls were jammed. Cutting his motors for an immediate investigation, he discovered that his radio microphone had fallen off its hook by the seat into the V-shaped well in the wall between the movable control column and the fixed structural parts of the cockpit. Grim-faced at his narrow escape from tragedy, the pilot told his employers about it. They at once passed the word to other lines using...
...amplify registration statements covering $69,000,000 worth of 3% scrip to be issued to present holders of German bonds in settlement of past-due interest, SEC finally gave up. It allowed the registration to become effective but not without a bold attempt to supply on its own hook some of the missing information it deemed vital to investors, particularly a hint as to the Reich's "secret debt...
...event that doctors do decide that it would be better if the President did not leave Cambridge, and the microphone is installed in his residence, it will be the first time that such an installation has taken place. President Conant has spoken over a national hook-up many times, but never before directly from his house...