Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange organizations functioning in the amusement industry, Pioneer Pictures, Inc. is one of the strangest. Organized two years ago, it is run by John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 30, and his Cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 35, whom Jock interested in cinema as Sonny had interested him in aviation. Board members are almost exclusively Whitneys. Last week the Whitneys had made ready for the U. S. public, at a cost of $1,000,000, the first full-length color picture since 1931-8,000 ft. and 1½ hours of 19th Century romance which may or may not revolutionize the cinema...
...five Gimbels who manage Gimbel Bros. Inc. (department stores) are to be thought of as a basketball team, beefy President Bernard F. Gimbel, biggest stockholder, would be captain and centre. The team's "running" forward and its nimblest basket-shooter would be Cousin Richard, 36, vice president. A Phi Beta Kappa at Yale he advertised TUTORING CLASSES DE LUXE, guaranteeing that any student who attended his five-hour lectures would pass a given course. His students paid $20 a head, lay on divans in his rooms, consumed champagne, soda pop, candies, ice cream, cigars. Richard Gimbel carried his money...
...summarily dismissed Mr. Kaufmann for "disloyalty and insubordination." Furious, President Bernard, on whose Manhattan office wall hangs the motto: "To be Right is Desirable, To Seem Right is Essential," seized pen, dispatched to Cousin Richard a telegram: "YOU ARE HEREBY SUSPENDED AS AN OFFICER AND EMPLOYE OF GIMBEL BROS. INC. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO FORTHWITH LEAVE THE STORE. YOUR AUTHORITY TO ISSUE ANY ORDERS OR IN ANY WAY ACT FOR THE COMPANY IS HEREBY WITHDRAWN. YOUR UNAUTHORIZED ACTION . . . CONCERNING MR. KAUFMANN AT A TIME WHEN YOU KNEW DIRECTORS WERE CON- TEMPLATING NOT TO RE-ELECT YOU TO OFFICE COMPELS THIS...
...Biggest dispenser of premiums, with an annual appropriation of some $2,000,000. is supposed to be Quaker Oats Co. For four Quaker Oats box tops or one top and a dime, the company has lately distributed no less than 350,000 model airplanes made by Scrambled Eggs, Inc. A newcomer to the thingumabob business, Scrambled Eggs, Inc. took its name from its first product, an egg-shaped puzzle...
...Leningrad and who by U. S. law will share his estate with Prince Matchabelli's sister and niece. By Soviet law no Russian may inherit private property. If Manhattan courts should award to Brother Ito one-third of the 60% of the common stock of Prince Matchabelli Inc. owned by Prince Georges, it would promptly be seized by the Soviet Cosmetic Trust, directed by the wife of Soviet Premier Molotov...