Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poorman Fred C. Perkins, maker of automobile batteries in a factory shed at York, Pa. was fined $1,500 because he could not afford to pay 40? an hour wages commanded by the New Deal...
Munitions maker Irénée du Pont remembered with a Christmas present Senator Gerald Prentice Nye and each member of his Senate Munitions Investigating Committee. Mr. du Pont's present, in each case: a copy of Kapoot (kaput: "done for"), an account of Russian poverty and industrial inefficiency by Grant Carveth Wells...
Again the spotlight was accorded to Birge and his highly amusing sates. The supporting cast of David School maker '36, Gordon Robertson '38, and Larry Nichols '35, must have satisfied even the critical impresario and director in chief, Gale Noyes...
...reduced sales, but by a legal snarl over a mid-Depression effort to expand. In 1932 Studebaker purchased White Motor Co. (trucks) only to have the deal blocked by minority White stockholders. Upshot was a receivership. Last week it looked as if Studebaker would be both the first motor maker to shuffle off its financial troubles in court and the biggest reorganization yet completed under the new Federal Bankruptcy Law (TIME, June...
...moraturi te salutamus business with a minimum of fustian. She nervously stabs cigarets into ash trays, gasps, whispers in the approved manner of the Green Hat school of acting. With but two months left to live, she finds that dissipation is not a proper preparation for meeting her Maker, goes to Dr. Steele in Vermont. Here, before Death overtakes her, Miss Bankhead runs the other gamut of her talent, bouncing around on furniture, puffing out her cheeks in gay girlishness...