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...Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Consolidated Oil Corp., Armour & Co., West Indies Sugar Corp., Hayden, Stone & Co., North American Co.-were added to the long and varied list. "He got the Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. business away from one of the old-established air insurance firms and split it with Fred Roper. Fred is the son of Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Commerce-in charge of the regulation of aeronautics...
Eighteen miles south of St. Augustine, Fla. is a brand new town, Marineland, where last week Marine Studios, Inc. opened a mammoth, $500,000 aquarium. Surrounded by palmetto trees and tropical shrubbery, the aquarium, world's largest, consists of two adjacent, open-air, steel and concrete tanks. The larger one is rectangular-100 by 40 ft. and 18 ft. deep; the other, an 11-ft.-deep, circular tank, is 75 ft. in diameter. Along the walls of both tanks are some 200 portholes...
...build up its collection the company plans to spend $100,000 a year, most of which will doubtless be put up by Board Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. President of Marine Studios, Inc. is W. Douglas Burden, trustee of the American Museum of Natural History; vice president, Count Ilia Tolstoy, grandson of the famed Russian novelist...
Last week Marion Perloff fell/jumped out of a window in the office of Girl Scouts, Inc., on the eleventh floor of the TIME & LIFE Building, Manhattan. And television cut another notch in its growing list of achievements. Conducting outdoor television tests in Rockefeller Center's Plaza, NBC's Iconoscope Cameraman Ross Plaisted was shifting his camera's focus when he caught the girl's falling body at the sixth floor, followed it to the ground. The telecast was not on the air but NBC engineers were watching the cabled tests in an RCA Building control room...
...missionary" at $15 a week, began to learn cigaret selling in the Ellis-McKitterick manner. Through the years and many a complicated corporate change the three stuck together. In 1931 Ellis and McKitterick emerged with working control of an inconspicuous 12-year-old firm named Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc., with annual sales of about $3,000,000. Last week Rube and Mac were not alive to see it, but Philip Morris was the No. 1 success story of a depression year. It had increased its sales 45%, its profits from $3,573,000 in fiscal...