Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nominee Baldrige, scion of a good old Nebraska family, went to Yale, was graduated with the Class of 1918. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), husky (236 Ib.) he won the intercollegiate wrestling championship, played tackle on the football team. A steady, dogged, democratic young man, he made and held many a good and potent friend at New Haven. After two years at the Yale Law School, he returned to Omaha, married Regina Connell, who bore him two sons and a daughter, got his law degree at the University of Nebraska, was admitted to the bar in 1922. The genial contacts...
Born. To Princess Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York, and Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George. Baron Killarney, Count of Inverness. Duke of York: a daughter (their second). Weight: 7 Ib. Probable names: Cecelia Victoria Margaret...
Born. To Irving Grant Thalberg, an executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stu- dios, and Cinemactress Norma Shearer; at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles; a boy. Weight: 8 Ib...
Copper Cut. Sales of copper during July were larger than June because of its cut to 11? per Ib. But the end of the month found stocks of all copper on hand had decreased only 6,346 tons from June's figure of 570,596 tons.* The situation obviously was still unadjusted. Last week readjustment came with a slash that brought copper to 10¾? per Ib., the lowest since 1902. Few companies can make money with copper at this level; hence production is likely to dwindle down to demand. Even low-cost producers will not find...
...made tremendous strides since 1919 when a few military aircraft were released for civil works (TIME, Jan. 27). Of 88 companies engaged in commercial operations, ten are operating scheduled services over 6,984 mi. of airways. Last year Canada's air lines carried 86,242 paying passengers, 430,636 Ib. of mail, 3,903,908 Ib. of freight and express, flew...