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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children mobbed him, swept him two blocks from his car. ¶At Brighton, Fla., Mr. Hoover lunched with Glenn H. Curtiss, aviation pioneer. He remarked to his host that Col. Lindbergh should fly no more, lest he be killed by the law of aviation averages. The Pan-American Airways, Inc., Mr. Hoover suggested, should give him a good safe ground job. Mr. Curtiss, a-twinkle, replied that the situation would probably be met, in view of press reports that Mr. Hoover was going to appoint Col. Lindbergh to his sub-cabinet in charge of civil aeronautics. Mr. Hoover promptly changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Into the Sunset | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Entertainment. Cheers for the cinema, tears for the legitimate theatres were indicated in reports from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corp., Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky Corp., and Shubert theatres. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (common stock owned by Loew's Inc.) earned a net of almost $5,400,000 or $31.21 a share against a net of about $3,000,000 or $16.68 a share in 1927. Paramount reported a record net of $8,700,000, an increase of $650,000 over 1927. The Shubert report showed a $470,822 profit for six months ending Dec. 31, 1928, as compared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Piggly Wiggly man, retain an interest. Instead, he now heads a competitive chain of 400 Clarence Saunders Stores, serving 225 towns and cities in 18 states. Last week the Saunders chain was extended to the Pacific Coast with a million-dollar stock issue offered in Clarence Saunders Pacific Stores, Inc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Piggly Wiggly Man | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...after a brief banking interlude, Melville Elijah Stone became general manager of the Associated Press of Illinois, Inc. and soon made it dominant in a field which had been confused by three conflicting news services. The present Associated Press was incorporated in 1900. By sending Associated Press correspondents abroad and by making alliances with European news agencies, General Manager Stone gave the U. S. more complete and impartial foreign news. Previously, most of the despatches had come through London and hence were British-colored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of a Stone | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

President Harold F. Pitcairn of Pitcairn Aviation, Inc., has found such promise in Juan de la Cierva's Autogiro that last week he organized Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Co. of America to develop the autogiro in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Pitcairn-Autogiro | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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