Word: nine
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...Family Matter. In a business noted for fickleness, Guy Lombardo had made himself America's No. 1 longtime dance-band leader by merchandising a product as dependable and uninspired as a metronome. Lombardo still has eight of the nine men he started with in London, Ont. in 1923. Three of the band are his brothers. Papa Lombardo, Italian-born, was a tailor who bought musical instruments for his kids. Guy, now 43, and sleekly handsome, started on the violin, now just stands in front of the band. Brother Carmen, 42, plays sax, and Brother Lebert, 41, the trumpet. Their...
...street. She had a lot to say in the Trib's rise to its present high place, a pinnacle that would seem even higher if the view were not obscured by its great morning rival, the Times. The Trib is sixth in circulation among Manhattan's nine daily newspapers, but far higher than most of the others in the quality of its writing and its coverage, and its typography. In some departments, notably music and the dance, its critics are superior to the Times's. Under Mrs. Reid, the hiring & firing has shown spotty judgment. A good...
During the first nine months of this year, dividend payments reached a total of $1.5 billion, up 4.2% over a year...
With a weather eye on competition from the air, the 78-year-old Grace Line announced its newly designed passenger ship for its postwar services to Latin America. The new $3,500,000 ships, of which Grace has ordered a fleet of nine, will be 13,900-ton combination cargo and passenger vessels. They will carry 52 passengers v. 225 in the biggest of the prewar Grace "Santa" liners...
When American Airlines' fast-growing predecessor, American Airways, swallowed T.A.T.'s successor, Southern Air Transport, in 1929, Hardin became American Airways chief pilot and general manager. Nine years later, a member and later chairman of the Air Safety Board of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, he helped write the safety regulations that made U.S. commercial aviation the safest in the world. Later, for the Defense Supplies Corp. he helped purge Latin American aviation companies of Nazi control, then joined the Air Corps as a lieutenant colonel...