Word: infantability
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...with which Vickers-Armstrongs had a curious agreement that "if the profits (of Vickers) in any year during the five years ending December 31, 1932, do not amount to $900,000, then a contribution not exceeding $200,000 will be made in each year." Sir Otto Niemeyer, the infant phenomenon of British finance who first entered His Majesty's Treasury at the age of twenty-three, is another Vickers director; he is, addition, an officer of the Bank of England, a director of the Anglo-international Bank and the Bank of International Settlements...
...world Press last week went a photograph of a small, solemn baby just four months old. It was the first official portrait of His Celestial Highness Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito, Crown Prince of Japan (see cut). That this sober infant may inherit an empire as great as it is venerable, Japan's ministers last week risked once more the world's wrath...
...Cintas (American Car & Foundry), Eugene G. Grace, Edward S. Harkness, J. Watson Webb. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson (Joan Whitney) sent their Don Vincente Osorio, Count of Trastamara as a Child from their huge living room in Manhasset. Jules Bache lent his often exhibited Don Manuel Osorio, an engaging infant half-surrounded by three cats, a bird cage, a tame magpie. Chicago's Art Institute was represented by six small canvases showing a monk accurately and amusingly shooting and capturing a bandit. All the other pictures were portraits: the aloof La Tirana, an actress whom legend has included among...
That first, the infant Soviets...
...Philippine hills. The Spaniards snatched off their gold earrings and beat them into crucifixes. Spanish-American War adventurers, trekking inland, were greeted by natives crying "Ado Balatoc Bantay!" ("Lots of gold in the mountains.") But geological disturbances, dense vegetation, frequent droughts and lack of modern machinery kept the infant industry of the Philippines from rapid development. Not until last year did Philippine business men really begin to discover how much balatoc there was in the bantay and what it was worth. One day last autumn an old man strode down the streets of Manila waving a bottle. Men buttonholed...