Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camera got into action just before New Year's Day. Since then thick weather has ruined every night but a few for sky-map-ping, but last week three plates had been successfully exposed and developed. Thirty-seven more plates will be needed to mop up the Northern sky. Then...
...ravaged Insull empire. Back to a dreary city in 14 days came James Simpson from India. He resigned as chairman of Marshall Field & Co., in which he holds more stock than even the Field estate, replaced Samuel Insull as chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co., Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois and Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. A $450,000,000 company, Commonwealth Edison has a virtual monopoly on electric power sales in Chicago's 210 square miles, has never missed paying a dividend. Public Service is a $226,000,000 company serving 6,000 sq. mi. of territory including...
...Northern Trust Co.'s meeting a fourth-generation Chicago banker was elevated to the board of his family's bank last week-Solomon Byron Smith, 31, vice president son of President Solomon Albert Smith, a grandson of that bank's founder and a great-grandson of a powder salesman who helped found what was later the cornerstone of big Continental Illinois...
...Three Soldiers and Arnold Zweig's Case of Sergeant Grischa was added this week Author van der Meersch's Invasion-the first novel to show what the War was like for civilians caught behind the German lines. Invasion's scene is the district around Lille, in northern France, a narrow strip between the Belgian border and the trenches of the Western Front. In that crowded industrial area, in 1914, were three towns, a dozen villages, hundreds of thousands of people. Invasion's principal characters number more than 50, represent every type of noncombatant, every fortune...
What was a nuisance to swank Palm Beach is a boon to the rest of Florida, which this winter is outdoing itself to make northern nomads happy. Opened near Sarasota last week was the "National Winter Trailer Show" with all important manufacturers exhibiting at the 600-acre Samoset trailer town. Scheduled for the annual Florida Orange Festival at Winter Haven next week is a "Trailer Parade," with an even 1,000 mobile homes competing for fancy prizes. Estimates of the number of trailers already in Florida ran as high as 26,000, the increase over last year as high...