Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood. In Hollywood, Jock Whitney met RKO's production chief, Merian Caldwell Cooper, who talked enthusiastically about Technicolor as the next great revolution in the cinema industry. Color was the incentive Jock Whitney needed. He and his cousin bought 15%-about $1,000,000 worth-of Technicolor Inc., organized Pioneer to make color films for RKO release...
...Jacksonville, Fla. To his third wife, Mrs. Jessie Ball du Pont, go $200,000 a year, his Florida estate, "Epping Forest," his art collection, his yachts. To his four children and a brother-in-law executor, 5,000 shares each in his personal holding company, Almours Securities Inc. To other relations and retainers, securities and annuities. Income from the bulk of the estate, plus $1,000,000 cash and "Nemours," his famed Wilmington estate, with its 1,600 acres and fine mansion, goes to establish a foundation to house and care for crippled children or aged poor, preferably of Delaware...
Died. Charles S. Erlanger, 77, co-founder of B.V.D. Inc. (union suits), father of its Board Chairman Sidney C. Erlanger; in Elberon...
...like Texaco and British-controlled Shell could rove the whole union. In 1929 President Walter C. Teagle stepped out of bounds to acquire a company (Beacon Oil) with retail outlets in New England, province of Standard of New York (now Socony-Vacuum). Last month he put a subsidiary, Esso, Inc., on the heels of Edward G. Seubert of Standard of Indiana...
...Hamilton College came to town begging for reservations. The guest of honor, Miss Cathrine Curtis, whose radio talks on Women & Money had inspired the luncheon, was so excited she could not eat. Over plates of steaming chicken the ladies listened to speeches, applauded, voted. Result: Women Investors in America, Inc., a non-profit making national organization for the "mobilization" of women...