Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cabin, on deck. There he found his employer's handkerchief. He ran to the bridge to tell Capt. John M. Kelley. The Sabalo put about. Foot by foot a searchlight's bright shaft swept a circle about the idling yacht, found only its own zig-zag reflection. (The owner's yachting cap was fished from the sea two days later...
Died. Alan Ian Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland, 50, grandson of the 8th Duke of Argyll, a diehard Conservative in the House of Lords, part owner of the London Morning Post, after long illness; in London...
Shell Union Oil Corp. passed its dividend for the first time since organization in 1922. Especially hard hit by this are The Royal Dutch Company for the working of petroleum wells in the Netherlands Indies, 43%-owner of Shell Union, and Shell Trading & Transport, 29% owner. President John C. van Ech's explanation was that there is no indication that the unsettlement will soon be removed, that cash must be reserved for expansion. The company was stated to be "on a profitable basis...
...immigration and quarantine authorities for permission to take his educated fleas on a U. S. tour. In the course of telling his troubles to a U. S. newsgatherer, he made a pronouncement surprising to laymen: "I prefer the male flea, because he is more conscientious." Professor William Heckler, owner of Manhattan's largest flea-circus, disagrees with Jean Rochet. Professor Heckler uses mostly females in his acts. He finds that the male flea, which is much smaller than the female, cannot go without food for long, breaks down under the strain of heavy work, is too highly strung...
Died. Edward Bushrod Stahlman. 86, oldtime German-born southern newspaper man, owner & editor since 1895 of the Nashville Banner, onetime vice president of Louisville & Nashville R. R.; after long illness; at Nashville...