Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Tudor Gardiner was to speak on "Employment of Prisoners," Carolina's Gov. Oliver Max Gardner on "Youthful Prisoners," Virginia's Gov. Harry Flood Byrd on "The Segregation Plan of Taxation" and North Dakota's Gov. George F. Shafer on "The Gasoline Tax." It looked like poor pickings for newsmen assigned to cover the conference...
Founding a Sikorsky company in the U. S. was to him a matter of course and selfesteem. He wants no anonymity of accomplishment. But he does not like business details. He is primarily an engineer. Many a Sikorsky order, many a deal, has been delayed by Inventor Sikorsky's futile enthusiasm for improvement, remodeling. He is almost the last of the big independent designers to succumb to the industry's merger movement...
Super Super-Whale. An early morning sun glittered on Lake Constance, Switzerland. Hundreds of people along the shore at Altenrheim eyed a fabulous structure at the water's edge-a yacht-like thing beneath a single wing 157 ft. wide. Above the wings were six turrets supporting six pairs of tandem motors. Mechanics, climbing up through the turrets, inspected the motors. Below the mono-wing on each side was a float like the half wing of a sesquiplane. The great structure was the mighty enlargement of Dr. Claude Dornier's Super-Whale, which he had been secretly building...
...when he read an advertisement in the Times wherein his own name was used conspicuously. Although he admitted last week that there was nothing illegal about such a procedure, Tycoon St. Davids was grievously vexed, brooded long, and one day demanded certain facts from the company auditor. Like most auditors, this one was a reserved gentleman. His reticence, and other aspects of the matter, so enraged the noble Lord that he issued a pamphlet setting forth his grievances, announcing that he would shortly resign as trustee...
Within a few minutes after the booklet was out, last week, shares of the British Royal Mail slumped from 55 to 45-representing an aggregate loss of something like $15,000,000 to thousands of small investors. Things looked all the blacker because for several months there has been a slow decline in BRM securities...