Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operating company construction (forced by threatening power shortages)-without any holding company shakeup-may reach somewhere close to $600,000,000 (against perhaps $500,000,000 this year), but is not likely to go higher. Some plans already outlined: > Companies in the Electric Bond and Share system have budgeted $80,000,000 of new construction for 1940 ($66,000,000 authorized this year). > Wendell Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern system (which two weeks ago sold more property to TVA-at a loss of about one-third on book value) is spending an extra $22,000,000 over & above its normal...
This squeeze may be a sign rather that the Japanese are desperate than that they are smart. They might lose their silk market forever. Last week in Wilmington, Del., Du Font's sheeny, much-publicized nylon hosiery went on sale at $1.15, $1.25, $1.35 (for different gauges), sold quickly when salesgirls claimed that one pair of them would outwear four of silk, that they would dry in ten minutes when washed. As material for full-fashioned hose a previous silk substitute, rayon, was a lame competitor to silk but nylon and its brother synthetics now in prospect may...
...dirt cheap prices of $10 to $15 a deadweight ton. The advent of World War II found Moore-McCormack big and respectable (capital: $5,000,000), in hock to the Government and worried over what to do with the surplus ships that the provisions of the Neutrality Bill may take out of service. Last week it found an answer...
...marry Prince Batoula of Senegal (TIME, July 10). She had not married the Prince. Reason: "international complications," including publication of the fact that she had a husband, Pullman Porter Clarence Rollins. Said Harriet: "For all I knew Clarence was dead. The last I ever saw of him was in May...
...private license.* Thanks to the light loads their large wings carry, "light planes," which commercial pilots call flivvers, pop-bottles, and of which an unprecedented 2,500 are being turned out this year, are all but foolproof. They cost as little as $1,098 new, far less at secondhand, may be hired at 4? per seat per mile. In one such, Langewiesche flew from New York to Key West. The cost of fuel, oil, hangars, a standard 20-hour engine check...