Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Longheaded, high-domed Wallace Kirkman Harrison and affable mustached J. (for Jacques) André Fouilhoux were among the architects who planned Rockefeller Center. They share a predilection for economy in architectural form. In evolving their Theme Centre for the Fair they made more than 1,000 sketches before they hit on the ultimate starkness of sphere and pyramidal form. Neither had ever been built before; both would certainly influence other World's Fair architecture to avoid superfluous dressing. And though neither the Sphere nor the symmetrical Trylon alone could serve as a direction-pointing landmark to guide wanderers...
...Distilled Liquors Corp. which bought a plant for making applejack. The public eagerly took the stock he offered, but did not take to the applejack. Needing funds to promote the company, Dick Whitney got large loans against his Distilled Liquors stock, which once sold as high as $45 a share. When the price began falling, he had to put up more collateral. Not having it, he got some two dozen unsecured loans from friends, then went to his brother George in July 1936 and January 1937, borrowed a total...
...incorporation was publicized last year when the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue objected to income tax deductions made by Mrs. Cadwalader and Husband Richard M. Cadwalader Jr. in their 1932 returns. It was then revealed that travel-loving Mrs. Cadwalader had sold to her attorney 400 ship shares at $100 apiece. Since the value of a share had been $1,717, Mrs. Cadwalader claimed capital losses of $647,124-a matter that will be threshed out in a Federal court probably next winter. Meanwhile, the Savarona had cruised about the West Indian seas and had crossed the Atlantic several...
When Helen Wills Moody published her autobiography (Fifteen-Thirty) last autumn, it was generally agreed that she had written finis to a distinguished tennis career. Seven-time U. S. Singles champion, seven-time All-England Singles champion, four-time French Singles champion, Helen Wills Moody had her share of big silver cups...
...general manager, Captain Edward Vernon Rickenbacker. Elected president of the new company, Eastern Air Lines, Inc., was Eddie Rickenbacker. His backers include Harold S. Vanderbilt and the Wall Street investment firms of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Smith, Barney & Co. Last week these two firms offered 416,666 shares of common stock at $10 a share to a select group. By week's end some 75% of the stock had been taken up. If the rest remains unsold, the general public may get a crack at it at a slightly higher price...