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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Wilbert Lewis Smith, 85, industrialist, one of the organizers of L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co., chairman of the board of L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc.; in Syracuse...
...China Medical Board Inc. got $10,000 for further digging in the now famed caves at Chou-Kou-Tien whence came the fossil remains of "Pekin Man," generally considered by anthropologists to be the oldest human type ever discovered. C. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, got $61,200 to start and maintain for five years Canada's first university training school for prospective civil servants...
...Zion City, Ill.; with liabilities of more than $1,000,000, assets of between $600,000 and $800,000; in Chicago. Overseer Voliva, who eats Brazil nuts and buttermilk and believes the world is shaped like a soup-plate, has been trying to salvage his Zion Institutions and Industries Inc.-candy bar, cookie and lace factories, cement plant, bakery, bank, department store and publishing house-since 1933. Its assets were 87? in 1907, $10,000,000 in 1927, $6,000,000 in 1932. Subsequently Rev. Voliva tried to reorganize Zion Industries under Section 7/-B, failed, and likewise lost control...
...there was a prize fight between Jack Sharkey and Mickey Walker in a baseball park in Brooklyn. The promoters sold exclusive motion picture rights to Rudolph Mayer Pictures. Inc. Pathe News, Inc. installed a camera on a nearby building and made movies of the fight. New York's courts refused to allow Pathe. to distribute or exhibit their films, upheld the exclusive contract of Mayer Pictures...
This week a comparable legal question involving radio broadcasting arose in connection with the Joe Louis-Tommy Farr fight at Manhattan's Yankee Stadium. Buick Motors bought the exclusive broadcasting rights to the fight for $35,000. Transradio Press Service, Inc. and Radio News Association, Inc. whose business is supplying radio stations with news for broadcasting, announced that they would furnish running accounts of the fight for $10 per radio station. Buick's advertising agency, NBC whose network was being used by Buick, the fight promoters and the fighters went to court asking $100,000 damages...