Word: rainbows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shouldered, genial man of 42 with the middle name of Victor who had come to Manhattan's financial district from the West, maintained luxurious offices at 120 Broadway. In these offices he busied himself over the affairs of many enterprises, three of which especially stood out. One was Rainbow Luminous Products, Inc., long involved in a raucous patent squabble with Claude Neon Lights, recently suspended from trading on the Curb (TIME, Oct. 13). The others were Metal & Mining Shares, recipient of much publicity last week, and Gold Center Mines, Inc., holding company for properties from British Columbia to Bolivia...
After asserting they had no part in the irregularities, Mr. Bob's associates held long, mysterious meetings, still maintained their chief's return was not far distant. In the offices of Rainbow Lumi nous Products, directors met for hours, hinted that new, strong interests were about to take hold, found the company decidedly solvent With these events the upward climb of Charles V. Bob seemed gravely impeded if not permanently halted. His whole story is the tale of a mining man who turned from the search of natural metals for the easier gold that lies...
With the formation of Charles V. Bob & Co. and a large personal investment in Rainbow Luminous Products he started the grand financial pace which he maintained until last week...
...Although the stockmarket closed weak on the day of the failure, it began the next day with an exuberant show of strength, heightened by short covering. It remained strong even on the following day when the insolvency of a small Curb house. Piperno & Co., was announced, and trading in Rainbow Luminous Products suspended. Although few persons expected the pace to continue, or even thought there would not soon be another recession, sentiment was considerably improved. Among opinions expressed, notable was that of George McClelland Reynolds, 65, chairman of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co., most potent of Chicago bankers. Said Banker...
...Farewell to Arms. Laurence Stallings was a co-author of What Price Glory and of Rainbow. Best that can be said of his adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's bit ter, static War novel is that Mr. Stallings has attempted to interpolate little of his own material. Worst that can be said is that his editing of Hemingway's material is questionable. None of the close-knit Hemingway scenes were without importance: they were all inseparable and significant. By eliminating such memorable sequences as Lieut. Henry's wounding, his escape into Switzerland with Nurse Catherine Barkley (which would...