Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think the item should have been included in TIME that the boy who as a small child inspired the writing of "Mighty Lak a Rose," now a man of 38. was killed Sunday, Jan. 17 in an automobile crash near Macon...
Sirs: Under the depressing caption "Cruises Cancelled" in TIME, Jan. 11, you mention among other items of travel news that Cie Internationale des Wagons Li ts et des Grands Express Européens abandoned the Manhattan office (No. 701 Filth Avenue). This statement, technically correct, is nevertheless misleading. It would have been better to explain that the building was abandoned, and not the office. This office staff, furniture, etc., was moved from its one-story premises at No. 701 Fifth Avenue to the recently enlarged Thos. Cook & Son offices at No. 587 Fifth Avenue, comprising six working floors. (Thos. Cook...
...automatic presence on its board of Eugene Meyer. Governor Meyer is in a sense the originator of the credit club to fight the fears and panics of a Depression (FORTUNE, Jan. 1932). As director of the War Finance Corp. after which R. F. C. is patterned almost item for item, he evolved and put to use his economic theory in the 1921 slump. He knows to a nicety how many millions or billions of dollars one needs at one's elbow to annihilate this or that bugaboo of deflation. It may not be necessary or practical to use them...
...made or expected, but the pompous colonel had a peculiar means of repayment at his command each Tuesday night when the magazine was being made up. On those nights he presided noisily over the editorial rooms, his lawyer at his elbow, reading and initialing proofs of every item which had been set in type for that issue. Now and then he would snort angrily at the "injustice" of some barbed paragraph, turn an infuriate glare upon his quaking underlings and announce that the story could not be true! For years the colonel had known the family under discussion and could...
...President Vincente Mejia Colindres said that Honduran honor and sovereignty had been violated, that force would be used if necessary. Beech-Nut Packing Co. (bacon, coffee, candy, chewing gum) last week sold its subsidiary Beech-Nut Co. of Canada, Ltd. to Life Savers, Inc., owned by Drug, Inc. Chief item in the sale was Beech-Nut's plant at Hamilton, Ont. equipped for making gum & candy. Hitz Hotels. In receivership is Detroit's smart, big (1,200 rooms) Book-Cadillac Hotel. Last week, however, a new destiny for the hotel was ordained. Ralph Hitz, managing director of Manhattan...