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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Foods Corporation, which maintains a "college fleet" of trawlers yesterday launched the "Harvard" a $250,000 vessel, from the plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at Fore River. A sister ship, the "Princeton" is to be launched later this month. The "Annapolis," "West Point" and "Yale" are already in commission...
...tried selling airplanes. For the next several years he flew from coast to coast, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, piling up flying hours and getting a comprehensive view of private flying such as few short-hop and Sunday fliers get. Sometimes selling several ships a month, but more often finding territories soured on flying because of local accidents, he finally quit and started a flying school. Then this year, with 2,250 flying hours to his credit and a hatful of information on what makes ships crash, he started publishing Air Facts...
Some such fascination as draws Spaniards to bull fights draws a large, weekly audience to NEC's five-month-old questionnaire program, Information Please. A number of powerful minds are let into the ring, are baited, stung, encouraged, wounded, sometimes left unscathed by a series of pointed questions. Matador of this intellectual bull session is sharp-witted Clifton Fadiman, book reviewer for The New Yorker. Permanent bulls have been Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and the New York Times'?, amazingly broadly informed Sportswriter John Kieran. Paul de Kruif, Stuart Chase, Marc Connelly, John Gunther, Alice Duer Miller...
...last week, earnings reports for August (first full month since the 25% boost took effect) made it plain that thus far the rate increase has helped the railroads as much as a rainy climate helps rheumatism. The Pennsylvania Railroad's passenger revenues fell 14% below August 1937, the New York Central's 17%, Baltimore & Ohio's 19.5%, the New York, New Haven & Hartford's 3%. All told, August was the Eastern railroads' worst month for passenger revenues this year...
Marriage Revealed. Margot Grahame, 27, British cinemactress who once advised young people to "plunge into matrimony''; and Allen McMartin, Canadian multimillionaire; near Montreal, a few days after her divorce last month from English Actor Francis Lister...