Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jean Tillier, affable U. S. representative of the French Line, resigned to launch an importing house with Henry S. Thompson, founder and former president of Thompson-Starrett Co. (building construction). Tillier-Thompson, Inc. got the contract for Pommery-Greno champagne and Chauvenet wines. Charles F. Bertelli, a Hearst European correspondent in Paris, rushed to Manhattan with a new wife and 17 exclusive agencies for little-known wines & liquors. He promptly organized Trans-Europa Corp. One of the founders of Hahn Department Stores, Eugene Greenhut, and Willard Karn, oil-burner salesman famed as a bridgeplayer, started National Distributors for- Distillers, Inc...
With a bang that reverberated throughout California, the cannery of Calistan Packers, Inc. near Modesto was closed temporarily last week by a Federal court order under the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Clingstone peaches caused the trouble. In August, A.A.A. put through an agreement among some 50 canners limiting the pack of the California crop to 218,000 tons (10,000.000 cases). Packers were to pay peach growers $20 per ton for their product (last year's price: $6.50). They were also to contribute $2.50 for every ton they packed to a fund with which to compensate growers for their unharvested...
...Ralph Modjeski; when, rocked by a gust of wind, he lost his balance and fell 120 ft. from the Delaware River Bridge; in Philadelphia. Died. Horace Brisbin Liveright, 46, Manhattan publisher and stage producer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A onetime bond salesman, he, with Albert Boni, formed Boni & Liveright, Inc., which later became Liveright Inc., now bankrupt. Some of his authors: Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, : Emil Ludwig, Robinson Jeffers, Ben ; Hecht, Hendrik Van Loon. Died. Michael Joseph ("Turkey Mike") Donlin, 57, actor, oldtime baseballer; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He was the strutting, clowning, umpire...
...expense of newspapers, has been able to sit back and insist quietly that, so far as Radio was concerned, no war existed. Last week, however, Columbia Broadcasting System took action which, if not a show of force, at least was good showmanship. It formed Columbia News Service, Inc. to gather and broadcast news...
Standard Statistics Co. Inc., world's largest figure factory, estimated that $1,000,000,000 had flown the Atlantic, the bulk of it to London. France, whose tie to gold is none too secure, has received little, but Holland and Switzerland have been drowned in dollars. Unlike the export of gold which is strictly banned,* the flight from the dollar has been quietly encouraged by Washington; it pushed down the price without requiring devaluation by Presidential decree...