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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Carolyn Christian Crosby, daughter of Franklin Muzzy Crosby, Minneapolis wheat man (General Mills, Inc.) in whose $2,500,000 fortune she will share; and Charles Beecher Hogan, Yale graduate, employe in Yale's Sterling Memorial Library; in Minneapolis...
Three years ago C. William Glose, 32, vice president of Philadelphia's Airport Development & Construction Co., was killed in an airplane crash near Tampa. His wife and three children sued Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, Inc. for $200.000. A Newark District Court jury awarded her $56,000; the judge cut it to $40.000. Curtiss-Wright appealed on the grounds that: i) Mr. Glose had automatically limited damages to $10,000 by accepting the printed form ticket; 2) as the plane's sole passenger he had "chartered" it; and 3) there had been no negligence on the part of Pilot...
...maximum week (extensible to 48 hr. at seasonal peaks) and wages of 40? an hour. It provided that the industry should undertake forest conservation measures (details to be worked out in co-operation with the Administration). Biggest of all it set up a "Lumber Code Authority Inc." which will 1) estimate consumption, work out production quotas; 2) set minimum prices so that no lumber products may be sold below cost. Dr. Wilson Compton, manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, promised the code would meet a "cordial reception" in the industry...
Announced for early marketing by both Dictograph Products Co., Inc., and Sonotone Corp. were similar portable devices for hearing by bone-conduction of sound Dictograph's instrument was new, Sonotone's an improvement on one it began marketing last November. That was developed by Sonotone's Dr. Hugo Lieber, after Sonotone gave up the U. S. distributing rights to "Fortiphone", hearing aid produced by Berlin's Siemens & Halske...
...Hahn. chairman of Hahn Department Stores, Inc., announced last week that his contract with the company would expire Aug. 31, would not be renewed. From 1918 to 1928 as managing director of National Retail Dry Goods Association he was consulting expert for stores all over the country on how retailing could be done profitably. In the merger era of 1928 he came to the conclusion that department stores like everything else could be profitably run in chains. So 22 stores straddling the U. S. from Seattle to Greensboro. N. C.-largest of them Jordan Marsh of Boston-were merged...