Word: orphans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. of Baltimore was a worthy "orphan" company rich in engineering talent and sales ability, poor in cash. North American Aviation, Inc. of New York is a holding company, affiliated with the potent Curtiss-Keys group, whose subsidiaries include Sperry Gyroscope Co., Eastern Air Transport (formerly Pitcairn), Ford Instrument Co. Last week "orphan" B-J won a secure home and assured backing for aircraft development by accepting a stock exchange offered by North American. Many a B-J engineer, including Vice President Temple N. Joyce, is a former Curtiss...
Barbara Winship, pretty but penniless orphan from Savannah, Ga., goes to Paris to live with her middle-aged uncle and aunt, the Selbys. Uncle George has a permanent job in Paris; Aunt Virginia has what is almost a salon. They know and bother with few transient U. S. tourists; instead they have good friends among the French bourgeoisie (U. S.: upper classes). When Barbara arrives in Paris she is a small-town Southern girl, almost a type. Her aunt's canny tutelage, her own adaptability, latent good sense, transform her into an original charmer. When she marries good-natured...
...makers of colossal newspaper fortunes, once bitter rivals, then friends and collaborators in the United Empire Party, and today goodness knows what. Last week Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere seemed to have been made a fool of by his blatant twin, seemed to have been left with a penniless orphan party on his hands, which he doggedly announced he would bring up "until we have achieved all our aims...
Small and practically impotent is the Federal Power Commission, set up in 1920, as an orphan agency to control billions of dollars worth of U. S. water power rights. Its job is to license power companies to construct plants along navigable streams, to check their investments, to regulate interstate power rates, to maintain govern-ment options to buy back licensed plants after 50 years. The nominal commissioners are the Secretaries of War, Interior & Agriculture. They sit about five hours a year. The actual work of the commission is carried on by Frank E. Bonner, its secretary, Charles A. Russell...