Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designate Flyer Sigismund Levanevsky as the first man, when the time comes, to try the flight from Moscow to San Francisco via the North Pole base. Lithe, taciturn pilot Levanevsky is a boot-black's son who fought with the Red Guard in the War, first made news when he flew to the rescue of U. S. Flyer Jimmie Mattern in Siberia in 1933. Levanevsky later helped rescue the members of the wrecked Chelyuskin expedition. Two years ago he was forced back while attempting a non-stop flight from Moscow to San Francisco. Same year he and a companion...
Henderson kept up with his music at Princeton, whence he was graduated in 1876, three years before Woodrow Wilson. He served his apprenticeship on the New York Tribune, worked for brief spells on the Morning Journal (now the New York American), Financial & Mining News, as business manager of the Standard Theatre. In 1883 Henderson joined the staff of the New York Times, and four years later he was made its music critic. But editors did not forget Billy Henderson's fine news stories on the death of William Henry Vanderbilt and the blowing up of Flood Rock. When...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
Story is that the Treasury officials did actually sound out British authorities early this spring on the possibilities of cutting gold prices but the news leaked out in London, causing such uproar that the idea was dropped like a hot brick. Whatever the value of that story, a quick glance at gold figures is enough to convince anyone that the U. S. is holding the bag. During the past year the Treasury has bought $800,000,000 worth of gold, none of which it needed. Imports last week pushed total U. S. gold stocks above the staggering figure...
...revenues have been relatively stable but its costs have soared, chiefly due to higher taxes-up from $867,000 to $1,400,000 in the last five years. Last week New York Steam suddenly passed dividends on its preferred stocks. The 7% issue broke 19 points on the news while the 6% issue, which had been around $100, sold as low as $75 per share...