Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boxes. Even before the bottle-can merger had been consummated, Mr. Catching's can company bought, complete, the Nashville Corrugated...
Central Alloy Steel Corp. Plans of Cleveland's Cyrus S. Eaton to form a giant alloy and special steel company were rumored when last week the Central Alloy Steel Corp. with which Mr. Eaton is identified, acquired the Interstate Iron and Steel Co. Central Alloy is the dominant U. S. producer of alloy steels. Interstate is a large manufacturer of iron and steel bars and general wire products, with plants adapted to the production of alloy steels. Donner Steel Co. is another manufacturer of special steels recently Eatonized...
Expansions promised by Mr. Fox far outstripped the ordinary bounds of showmanship. He promised not only installation of his "grandeur" proscenium-filling screen, and cinema houses devoted to newsreels, but magnificently he offered one fourth of his fortune (which newsmen were permitted to estimate at $36,000,000) to develop visual-oral instruction in schools. "On the theory," he said, "that one picture is the equivalent of eight words" and that words uttered by college presidents are more potent than those of ordinary teachers, Mr. Fox visualized the time when 15,000,000 or 20,000,000 school children will...
...Standing is indeed a lovable Mr. Weatherby, but his seduction in the mountain shack is somewhat repulsive. Autumnal passion is not particularly engrossing except to psychologists and sardonic novelists. Unless it be handled with the utmost finesse, is a questionable theme for light comedy, and in Jenny it is presented with a clumsy schoolboy suggestiveness...
June Moon. Ring W. Lardner and George S. Kaufman are the authors of this satire on the noisiest of all "rackets," music publishing. It is as funny as a fusion of such wits would lead one to expect. Mr. Lardner has even gone so far as to write several crack-brained chansons which no one will be able to whistle but which everyone will want to hear again. The negligible story tells of a boy (Norman Foster) who leaves Schenectady to write lyrics in Manhattan. His June Moon is a success and, having narrowly escaped marriage with a shapely extortionist...