Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Air Force, landed his Gipsy-Moth at Port Darwin, Australia 9 days 3 hr. 20 min. after leaving Kent, England. His time just beat the record of Wing-Commander Kingsford-Smith; but Lieut. Scott wearily declared: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds." Last week Lieut. Scott arrived back in England. His time from Australia was 10 days, 23 hr.-nearly two days better than Kingsford-Smith's record for that direction. Ill from exhaust fumes, scorched by sun, wind and engine heat, Lieut. Scott said...
...Schwartz to turn out something well out of the ordinary. They do. In rapid succession, lively, gracious Fred & Adele Astaire (Funny Face, Smiles) entertain with dancing to an accordion played by Brother Fred; a tasteful tune, "High & Low," is introduced; Frank Morgan (Topaze) and straight-faced Helen Broderick (Fifty Million Frenchmen) engage in a long argument while waiting for a taxi; Dancer Tilly Losch (This Year Of Grace) exhibits herself sinuously in a tasteful routine. Included in the tomfoolery is that extremely funny man Philip Loeb (Garrick Gaieties, June Moon...
...properties and the 160-mi. Cleveland Southwestern Ry. What Mr. Insull buys from Mr. Fitkin is the electric and water service of 200 communities in 13 states, most of which are along the Atlantic seaboard. Although his new acquisitions add less than 100,000 customers to the several million he already has, the deal gives Mr. Insull his first toehold in Connecticut and Massachusetts and leaves Rhode Island the only State on the Atlantic seaboard which contains no Insull unit...
...Wolf (Universal). In the last years of the last century, when U. S. millionaires were relatively uncommon, one of the richest, most erratic, most spectacular was Hetty Green. Starting life as Harriet Howland Robinson of New Bedford, Mass., she inherited nine million dollars from her father, a ship-owning Quaker. She astonished her contemporaries first by her penny-pinching, next by her marriage at 33 to "Spendthrift Green" who riotously squandered a million dollars of his own and died in a cheap hotel room paid for by his wife. Hetty Green raised a son and daughter, multiplied her nine million...
...Rudy Vallee was plugging the song "I'm Just a Vagabond Lover" he brought more trouble than glory upon his head by advertising it as one of his own creative efforts. Last year one Roberta H. McKay of Los Angeles claimed that she wrote the song, brought a million-dollar suit against Vallee which is still pending. Four months ago Songwriter Leon Zimmerman whom Vallee named as co-author sued for an accounting of $80,000 profits...