Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John E. Dockendorff. 68, president of American Diamond Lines, Inc. and Black Diamond Steamship Corp.; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Smith is president of Empire State, Inc.; chairman of the board of Lawyers County Trust Co., Meenan Coal Co. and Federal Broadcasting Co., and chairman of the board of trustees of the College of Forestry at Syracuse University: director of New York Life Insurance Co., Consolidated Indemnity and Insurance Co., Knott Corp., National Surety Corp., the Henry Street Settlement, Beekman Street Hospital and the Leauue of New York Theatres...
Rolls-Royce of England, parent of Rolls-Royce of America, Inc., was founded in 1903 by the son of a miller. As a boy, Hon. Charles Stuart Rolls, son of Lord Llangattock, precociously demonstrated his electrical ability by rigging up an apparatus in his mother's bedroom so that the moment she sat in her favorite armchair the room would burst into light. Plump Lady Llangattock sat down so hard she squashed the switch, blew out a fuse. Partner Frederick Henry Royce, struggling against youthful poverty, had no time for pranks. A modest builder of electrical cranes in Manchester...
...announced that in the past six months their German orders had declined 98%. Hence, the biggest department store in the U. S. was closing its Berlin purchasing office, moving to Prague. Few days later Bernard F. Gimbel announced: "There now being practically no demand for German merchandise Gimbel Brothers, Inc. have discontinued buying German goods." Other big Manhattan department stores which have closed their Berlin offices or otherwise stopped buying German goods include Lord & Taylor, which led off the boycott last autumn, Bloomingdale Brothers, Best & Co. and Hearn...
...replied: "There seems to have been plenty of reason for doing so, but whether sufficient I don't know." Requested to identify the airlines which he had elsewhere asserted were purchasing inferior equipment from associated manufacturing companies, he named Eastern Air Transport (owned by North American Aviation, Inc.) and United Air Lines (owned by United Aircraft & Transport Corp.). Next day appeared Capt. Edward V. ("Eddie'') Rickenbacker, famed World War ace and oldtime automobile racer, now vice president of North American Aviation, Inc. When he finished a prepared statement defending the companies, he stood up and with hands...