Word: islanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Resources Board, he started honeymooning with New York's very unromantic powerboss, Floyd L. Carlisle (who would like in the process of integration to get a good piece of Howard Hopson's old Associated Gas & Electric system, which sticks into his New York organization at Rochester, Staten Island, elsewhere). Any chance that some arrangement could be made whereby Mr. Carlisle would become War II's No. 1 Dollar a Year man, and deliver the industry's cooperation in a big building program, suddenly vanished. New Dealers, suspicious of aggressive Mr. Johnson...
...down payment of $1,200,000 and a balance of $2,300,000 to be financed later (probably by the U. S. Export-Import Bank), President Moore and Treasurer McCormack sold 14 of their old (19-21 years) Hog Island cargo ships to the Brazil Government. For Brazil it was a good deal. It stepped up her Government-owned Lloyd Brasileiro Line fleet to 62 ships, gave her urgently needed bottoms for carrying her coffee and raw materials overseas now that war has swept most belligerents' ships from the seas...
CROOKED SHADOW-Kurt Steel-Little, Brown ($2). Private sleuth Henry Hyer falls foul of a Long Island Nazi gang who framed his young assistant for murder. The plot's intrigues are given a sombre speciousness by current events and nimble writing...
...ISLAND LADY- Francis Griswold- Morrow...
...publishers of A Sea Island Lady were sufficiently confident of its future to run off four printings (11,300 copies) in advance of publication date, to set aside $3,500 for publicity, to blurb its heroine as "unforgettable." To early readers of the novel it was evident that this confidence was going to be abundantly justified, for two large reasons: 1) that the U. S. book-buying public is by large majority composed of women, and: 2) that it would be hard to imagine a book better qualified to delight that majority...