Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee borrowed from its chairman $122,000, bringing the Raskob loans up to $345,250; from County Trust Co. of New York (of which Mr. Smith is board chairman) $835.318 largely to refinance earlier obligations there. Individuals contributed $68,781 during the year. Largest amount: $25.000 from Vincent Astor, owner of much real estate in Tammany town...
...Congress) with its facts large & small - from an analysis of the latest U. S. census to the manner of addressing an archdeacon? The answer was "No." but not everyone knew it until last week when the 47th annual edition appeared. The publisher is, of course, the Scripps-Howard organization, owner of the World-Telegram. But the book is still called The World Almanac & Book of Facts; its cover still bears the familiar design of the ugly gilt dome of the old World Building, and its editor still is Robert Hunt Lyman. The 1932 Almanac does not differ from last year...
...Accompanying her was James Watt, onetime miner, hot Communist who used to agitate among Fifeshiremen while living on the Dole. Came also Commander Sir Walter George Windham who lists himself in Who's Who as "founder of the Aeroplane Club, 1908; took part in early motor drive to Brighton; owner of cars since 1897; Controller of the ist Aerial Meeting (England) at Doncaster; entered a monoplane constructed by himself . . . holds the silver and bronze medals of Royal Humane Society; Lloyd's silver medal for lifesaving; sailed round the world four times under sail, 1884-88 . . . mentioned in Government despatches...
...race. Bookmakers are bound to pay their clients at mutuel odds, which are theoretically a fair expression of opinion. But the mutuel odds on Linden Tree did not seem to be a fair expression of opinion. How this came about was explained by Baron Long, hotelman, racehorse owner and part owner of Agua Caliente Corp...
...million automobiles on the road in 1931 were an economic necessity almost as valid as bricks and bread. Almost, but not quite, for the automobile still combines pleasure with necessity. To millions of owners it is their most beautiful and costly possession. Its esthetic appeal is at once its weakness and its strength, for the potential owner who need not buy for necessity must be made to buy for pleasure. If he bought enough, the automobile industry might again perform its magic trick, might pull Prosperity out of Depression...