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Immediate plum of this great air fight: a Government airmail contract which United, having operated its group at a profit during the past hectic year (TIME, March 31), feels justified in trying to acquire, but which Curtiss-Keys, having been efficient managers, might ultimately retrieve...
...Devil's Plum Tree in Los Angeles, Emil Jannings asked her to make a picture with him. She is married to Ralph Forbes, an English actor. She is 5 ft. 2 in. tall, was born on Christmas...
Purpose: to provide Rumanian Government employes in Bucharest and elsewhere with 50,000 spandy new "model homes"; plus a liberal complement of highways', lighting systems, schools; plus a sugar plum for the Government itself in the shape of "the most magnificent Capitol Building in Europe...
...wore on Plum the Great recovered consciousness, called for his secretary, dictated what was afterward variously described as a "statement" and a "confession," then called in members of his family and tried to explain what steps they could take to save the Plum companies. At last he demanded what had been done with his pistol, was told that the police had taken it, seemed vexed. Since his doctor prescribed sleep he was left alone. Stealthily he rose, painfully dragged himself to a cupboard where he had secreted another pistol. Merciful, the second bullet brought Death to Harald Plum...
...brought about by skyscrapers and the subsequent deflation of vast areas of "unimproved" ground, made for economic instability. Of tall architecture he said: "Most of our skyscrapers . . . [are] elongated packing boxes, the architecture of whose midriff sections had best be passed over in haste. Many make me think of plum puddings whose raisins have settled on one or two sides. Certainly no one can say that recessing back a skyscraper makes for beauty." Never an official, never pedantic, Architect Hastings believed that the creator of a design should follow it through with the draughtsmen, landscapists and constructors...