Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compressed to 55 minutes. Concentration gives it pith; it tells its little story compactly and credibly. Although the action involves liquor-running and murder, it is less a picture of action than of character, made so by the skill of Lucille La Verne and James Cagney. She is the owner of a penny arcade, which she runs with an avarice only equaled by her devotion to bourgeois respectability and to her son, Cagney, a snivelling, dependent coward. Best shot-Evelyn Knapp getting pennies to be used by the arcade's customers...
Ethel and Charlotte Dorrance, debutante daughters and heiresses of the late Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, almost sole owner of Campbell Soup Co. (TIME, Oct. 13) were badly injured when their automobile skidded, overturned near Philadelphia...
...Pullman Company of the freight transportation business. Al though only the fourth largest manufacturer of freight cars,* it is the largest owner and operator of freight cars ? 40,000 of them, which it leases out to various railroads. Of these, 45% are tank cars, the rest are divided principally among stock, glass-lined milk and refrigerator cars. The company through subsidiaries owns ten repair shops far-flung through out the U. S., operates 5,000 freight cars abroad, has the largest storage terminal in the U. S. (at Goodhope, La.?a town built by the company...
...Endicott, when asked about University regulations said. "As a rule we do not allow any parking on University property, but where we do signs have been erected stating the conditions. All cars left on Harvard property contrary to regulations will be removed at the owner's expense...
Such colossal size was surprising even to those who knew that Dr. Dorrance was almost sole-owner of one of the most famed of advertised articles. But it presented a casebook example of what every able banker knows, viz.: that greatest modern fortunes are made not by promotive spurts and manipulations, but by continuous manufacture and trade...