Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco last fortnight Realtor Louis Lurie announced that he had organized a $5,000,000 company to produce pictures written and acted by Mae West. In Hollywood last week Mae West Empire Pictures Inc. was starting groundwork for its first production: Catherine the Great, written and acted by Cinemactress West, to be released early next year...
...youth has ever had. Its lessons: democracy, self-reliance. Since 1925 stocky, Kansas-born Dr. Lloyd Burgess Sharp, executive director of LIFE Camps, has staged a revival of the frontier for city boys and girls. To the three LIFE Camps* (maintained for underprivileged children by contributions from TIME Inc. and readers of its publications), he takes some 250 youngsters each year for a month's free vacation. In groups of six or seven, each group accompanied by two counselors, the children put up tents in the woods, cook their own meals, learn to take care of themselves in Nature...
...weather, but one morning last week a group sat in an office where Wall Street meets the East River and talked of little else. The occasion: a demonstration of the weather charting system which American Export Line expects to use when and if its subsidiary, American Export Air Lines, Inc., starts flying the Atlantic. Along one wall stood a huge map of the North Atlantic. Dotting the 3,445-mile course from Manhattan to Lisbon via the Azores were India-ink silhouettes of 14 ships, nine American Exporters, five Fascist-run Italian Liners...
Last week such was Wall Street's mollification toward Chairman Douglas that two of its leading firms finally acted upon this advice. Tri-Continental Corp. and Selected Industries Inc., investment trusts on behalf of whose sponsoring bankers, J. & W. Seligman & Co., the Bawl Street Journal once advertised, "Tri Continental. Tri Chesapeake Corp. Tri Anything Once," decided to tri underwriting. For the purpose they formed a new concern- Union Securities Corp., with $1,000,000 in cash, $4,000,000 more subscribed...
Died. Harold Snead, 40, chief pilot of the Eastern Region of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., who never had an accident flying as a commercial pilot; of heart disease; in Newark...