Word: inc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed by William Allen Patterson, onetime San Francisco banker who became president of United Air Lines last August. United Aircraft Corp., a $15,692,000 company to acquire all outstanding stock of Chance Vought Corp., Hamilton Standard Propeller Co., Northrop Aircraft Corp., Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., United Aircraft Exports Inc., The United Airports of Connecticut, and at least 99% of Sikorsky Aviation Corp. This new eastern manufacturing group, with headquarters at Hartford, Conn., will have as president & treasurer virile, energetic Donald Lament Brown, who joined Pratt & Whitney as factory manager in 1925, quickly rose to vice president in charge...
...began having fun with the sedate Wall Street Journal and its advertisers in 1919 but after he was drowned in Long Island Sound in 1926 publication lapsed for five years. In 1931 the Bawl Street Journal was resurrected by John A. Straley, lean, sardonic promotion manager for Corporate Equities, Inc. A writer of fiction on the side, Editor Straley started offering prizes which brought in contributions from all over the U. S. This year more than 10,000 copies were sold at 50? each. Profits go toward defraying the Bond Club's heavy Field Day expenses. In last week...
...Durenceau, 28, is an unworldly French-born U. S. citizen who studied at the Beaux Arts in Paris, once designed textiles for the United Piece Dye Works in Manhattan. There he met Mrs. Kaplan, also a designer. In Hollywood, he was given a job as color adviser to Technicolor Inc. in which Sonny and his cousin John Hay ("Jock") Whitney later became heavy stockholders (TIME, June 5). Mrs. Kaplan also went to Hollywood, was persuaded by Durenceau she would be a more successful manager than artist. Her first job as manager was to get commissions to decorate Hollywood homes...
...pious Episcopalian like his mother. Last March he helped work up an "Everyman's Offering" campaign for his bishop, Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson. By last week the Offering had become nationwide, with Lawyer Taft as its chairman and Eric Gibberd, a onetime department store executive (Abraham & Straus, Inc. in Brooklyn, Mably & Carew in Cincinnati), as its executive secretary. The Offering is working with posters, stickers, pamphlets, nationwide publicity, and a tabloid Hold the Line News. No diocesan or parish quotas are set. First 100% offering reported: from St. Andrew's Mission (48 communicants), Washington Court House. Ohio...
...prefer the rhythmic tricks of George Gershwin, the tongue-twisting verses of Gershwin's Brother Ira. But running his own publishing house for 15 years has taught Berlin that people buy music they can play and sing. Irving Berlin is the very active head of Irving Berlin Inc. He may work all night in his East End Avenue apartment. (Lately he has been busy on the broadcasts, planning a revue for next autumn.) He may occasionally flee the city for Nassau or Bermuda, any place to sit in the sun. But most afternoons he is hustling downtown, first...