Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 100 U. S. corporations. Prime targets on its lists were personal holding companies. Most famed was Fisher & Co.. holding company of Detroit's six Fisher brothers (automobile bodies), down for $17,199,797 for alleged evasions in 1929 and 1930. Others and penalties assessed: Rands, Inc. (W. C. Rands of Detroit's Motor Products Corp.), $1,047,999; San Francisco's Matson Securities Co., $874,377: Delaware-Olmstead Co., $1,464,877; Cinemagnate William DeMille...
...years. It has never come close to monopolizing his interests. Long a power in Virginia politics, he is credited with electing his friend Harry Byrd to the governorship. He has been president of American Newspaper Publishers Association and member of its NRA code committee, president of Community Chests & Councils, Inc., rector of University of Virginia's Board of Visitors. An active churchman, a fluent and witty public speaker, a leader in every benevolent project, he has been voted Richmond's most useful citizen...
Lost Horizons (by Harry Segall and John Hayden; Laurence Rivers, Inc., producers). What a hotel was to Grand Hotel, what a dinner was to Dinner at Eight, Heroine Janet Evans (Jane Wyatt) is to Lost Horizons. In this play the dramatic assembly of heterogeneous people and events begins after she commits suicide because her lover deserts her. In the next scene Janet Evans arrives in a lobby next to Heaven and begins to read the histories of the lives which would have been bound up with hers if she had stayed on earth: a disheartened Kansas City playwright; a female...
...industry from which he had been exiled. In October 1929, William Fox celebrated the Silver Jubilee of his film enterprises. Frenzied buying and frenzied borrowing had made him the undisputed grand panjandrum of cinema, ruling a $200,000,000 empire. He had just got control of Loew's, Inc. for some $75,000,000. He paid another $19,000,000 for a string of Gaumont theatres in Britain without ever looking at them. But he owed all this money in short-term notes. When the market crash caught him amidships, his creditors hemmed him in, charged him with mismanagement...
...Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., once the holder of some of the fattest governmental air mail contracts, today failed to win the support of the Supreme Court in its fight to regain the subsidies rescinded in February by Postmaster-General James A. Farley...