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Enterprise has eight mainsails and 50 other assorted pieces of canvas. All summer, sails have been rushed by motor truck from the Ratsey and Lapthorn loft in City Island to Enterprise and back again for alteration. Four sailmakers are on hand at Newport to make minor changes and repairs. Being launched early enough to get her sails in beautiful trim for the trials was one reason why Enterprise beat the other U. S. contestants, Weetamoe, Yankee, Whirlwind, for the right to defend the Cup. In the first trials on the Sound she proved that like Shamrock...
Happiness to Loft. Potent units in a feeble industry are Happiness Candy Stores, Inc. controlling the Mirror Candy Stores, and the stormy Loft, Inc. Last week a merger of these three companies was announced. The combined company will have 175 stores, $20,000,000 in assets, $18,000,000 a year in sales...
...Hohenzollern at Doorn, deflated the legend that the ex-Kaiser continually chops wood for exercise; explained that, since his withered left arm hampers his axe-work, "what the Kaiser does is take the pieces of wood in his right hand and toss them with unerring accuracy into the barn loft...
...Loft-Loft. Loft, Inc., the candy company which last year rid itself of its Loft family founders, last week found itself with a double directorate and two factions fighting for control. Official records are in the hands of a group headed by Alfred R. Miller, of A. R. Miller & Co., investment securities house, who has been Loft president since the Lofts left. Meanwhile Charles G. Guth, onetime head of Mavis Candies, Inc. (bought by Loft in April 1929 for $1,000,000), has been elected Loft president by another stockholding group which is demanding access to the records. The Delaware...
...Tuesday, therefore, fully 150 people crowded into the factory loft. To honor the holiday, and the educational-propagandal film from Moscow they were all magnificently drunk. Comrade Bazarnov, the movie operator, was far too drunk to handle the machine. He sat on the floor playing an accordion and smoking cigarets, while a friend riotously cranked the projector in the doorway and ribbons of celluloid spewed from the machine and lay curled on the floor. The butt of Operator Bazarnov's cigaret fell to the ground. In an instant the projector and the doorway were a mass of flames. Bazarnov...