Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pointed to operating losses of $10,000,000 in the past four years, depletion of working capital, curtailed sales. And they made much of the fact that 70% of Reo's cash had been tied up in a closed Michigan bank of which old Mr. Olds was chairman. Hugh R. Baker of American Bank Note, a large Reo stockholder, was so alarmed by the charges that he called on Mr. Diamond's attorneys. "A more evasive set of men I have never contacted," Stockholder Baker reported...
...serious revival of his humorous part in "Blessed Event" is a singing, composing orchestra leader faintly reminiscent of a well-known insecticide. Kay Francis as a banker's lonely wife looks too gloomy. Louise Fazenda with her setback coiffure provides some good laughs, while Guy Kibbee and Hugh Herbert are conventional chaperoned husbands...
...Germans say ein Hcldcntcnor, mean a full, powerful, wide-ranged voice capable of such dramatic roles as Tristan, Parsifal, Siegfried. Like the late great Jean de Reszke, Melchior began his career as a baritone. Novelist Hugh Walpole staked him to the study that turned him out a tenor...
Given to Argenteuil by Charlemagne a thousand years ago, admitted as a genuine relic by Archbishop Hugh of Rouen in 1156, the Holy Tunic has been zealously guarded down the centuries. Credited with hundreds of miraculous cures, its therapeutic powers were last said to be demonstrated in 1843 when a portion of it sent to the University of Fribourg healed a youth injured in a football game. When its golden reliquary was opened few years later, moths flew out after eating holes in the garment...
...Bureau of Standards until his recent death, showed how electrolysis could be used to get a fairly high conce tration of heavy water. Dean of Chemistry Gilbert Newton Lewis of the University of California later devised a series of electrolyses to produce almost pure heavy water. At Princeton, Dr. Hugh S. Taylor made three ounces of heavy water whose density could not be increased by repeated refinements, concluded he had pure deuterium oxide. Meanwhile heavy water's first fabulous cost of $150 per gram (about $37,500 for a glassful) was tumbling. By his "cascade" process which Dr. Urey...