Word: lost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Sorry old man but you slipped up on Chrysler earnings. See p. 54 of TIME, August 28. If Chrysler paid $8 per share, their quarterly dividend should be at least $2. It seems that I have lost money on that basis. I have only received $1, $1.50, $1.50 for the last three dividends on Chrysler stock. Maybe these weren't quarterly dividends but I think so. Even so it's a damn fine corporation...
...called Assistant Secretary Herbert Gaston: to coordinate the activities of Treasury's 10,578 Coast Guardsmen, 750 Customs agents, 250 Secret Service men, 250 income-tax inspectors, 1,250 alcohol inspectors. Tall, worn Mr. Gaston is an ex-newspaperman who lost out at 50 (when the old New York World expired), came back as Henry Morgenthau's trusted man Friday. Because he clamped down on departmental publicity in 1933, he rates as a stuffed shirt in the ribald, nude-daubed Treasury press room. But columnists and other "think piece" composers who value the long view applaud his emergence...
...pursuit pilots, protecting their neutrality, got into a dogfight with two British bombers, forced down one, shot down another. One of the Belgian ships went down in flames after its crew had bailed out. Britain made an apology, its second in the week for British pilots who apparently had lost their way. (In the earlier instance the apology was for a pilot who dropped a bomb on an apartment in Esbjerg, Denmark, apparently during the raid on Brunsbüttel.) Neutral observers began to wonder whether the navigation training of British airmen, confined to the narrow limits of the British...
...Santa Catalina Island, Calif., Charlie Chaplin rowed away from his yacht Panacea to get a little exercise, lost an oar, failed to start his outboard motor, drifted aimlessly for two hours before being rescued...
...airman may go aloft without a parachute and the same rule is generally observed in Europe's air forces. Last year, while the world was busy at rearmament it spent generously on parachutes because a pilot is a fighting asset well worth saving even if his plane is lost. Now the world wants more chutes than ever, for war means wear, tear and crashes-high mortality for life savers...