Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, General Motors Corp. made public six months earnings which set a new industrial record. Its net of $161,267,974 compares with profits of $129,250,207 for the first six months of 1927. Retail sales totaled 1,062,733 cars, as against 840,481 last year. Out of its plenty, General Motors made a great and generous gesture. It dickered for a time with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., then announced a contract for a $400,000,000 life, sickness and accident policy, open to any employe from President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., to Jacob Hazay, who works...
...Olympic oath for the entire U. S. team. One day, in practice, he tossed the discus 155 feet through a stage set for a Greek play. . . . The events: Sixteen-Pound Shot Put. Won by John Kuck of the U. S., 52 ft., 11/16 in., new world's record. Running High Jump. Won by Robert W. King of the U. S., 6 ft., 4⅜ in. Ten-Thousand-Metre Run. Won by Paavo Nurmi of Finland, 30 min., 18½ sec. Willie Ritola of Finland finished a scant yard behind Nurmi. One-Hundred-Metre Dash. Won by Percy Williams...
...York had just departed for the antipodes, bearing a book containing 72 pages of illumined vellum, bound in white calf with a raised chalice of gold cunningly repousse, jeweled in French enamel and surmounted by a Host in white enamel. Inscribed on the vellum leaves were "flowers," the record of 22,145,089,361 acts of devotion-masses said, holy and spiritual communions, benedictions, "little offices" and ejaculations. The "flowers" made up a spiritual bouquet, like the one offered to the Pope at the 28th Eucharistic Congress at Chicago two years ago (TIME, May 31, 1926). This one Father Dunn...
...week, of the first Democratic campaign banner "in 44 years. Truckman James J. Reardon, Al Smith musketeer, inspired the display. The Lower Wall Street Business Men's Organization* sponsored it. Memorable for employes, stockholders, of the General Motors Corporation, its divisions, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, were announcements of record profits, record employe insurance (see P. 34). Memorable, also, was the test of an oil well owned by the Skelly Oil Co. in the Hendrick Pool, Winkler County, Texas. Estimating its flow at 900 barrels an hour, officials hailed the gusher as the country's largest. Memorable...
...Canadian government into the Arctic. Four men became cut off from the main party and were never heard from. Ten years later, H. A. and Sidney Snow set out with cameras to discover what happened to the four men. Lost in the Arctic is an authentic and thrilling record of the Snow expedition. They went up the west coast of Alaska, hunting whales and walruses, lassoing a 2,200-pound polar bear and taking him aboard ship alive, hobnobbing with colonies of seals, strange birds, Eskimos. North of Alaska, on Herald Island, they found the remains of a tent, guns...