Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already in the airplane manufacturing business through General Aviation Corp.'s ownership of Fokker Aircraft Corp., and its control of Pittsburgh Metal Airplane Co. Last week's transaction put G. M. into the transport field. President Harris M. Hanshue of Western Air did not confirm the rumor that G. M.'s 24% stock holding would give it control of the Western Air Line. Nevertheless, observers saw in the arrangement an assured outlet for General Motors (Fokker) planes, possibly a bitter struggle between G. M. and Ford Motor Co. for air supremacy...
...eastern Texas oil field. Reason thought to be behind the decision was that Texas laws provide that the owner of a pipe line must buy all oil offered, whereas for shipment by rail a company needs buy only what it wishes. Perhaps an additional reason was the rumor that oil in this prodigious new field is coming in at increasingly high temperatures. To oilmen, that is a dire warning of water's approach, boom...
...feels it incumbent upon himself to rescue the daughter of a lawyer from the clutches of some gentlemen who out-Capone Capone. Gats, black-jacks, and, machine guns to the contrary the task is accomplished with the usual Oakiean touches. Those who like the young man in question, and rumor hath it that there be such, will enjoy the picture...
Charles Richard Crane, Hon. '22, head of the Crane Manufacturing Company of Chicago, yesterday was revealed as the hitherto anonymous donor of the Lowell House bells, thus disposing of the rumor that they were the gift of President Lowell...
...elected chairman of New York Edison Co., big subsidiary of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York. Immediately after the death of Edison-Chairman Nicholas Frederic Brady (TIME, April 7), Mr. Carlisle was added to the Edison and Gas directorates. Then, as again last week, the news started many a rumor of a vast merger between Consolidated Gas and Niagara Hudson Power...