Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Actor-Author John P. Wade saw the Walt Disney cartoon, Mickey's Polo Team, he sued Disney for a share of the film's profits. Alleged plagiarism: that the gag of the horses riding the riders had been lifted from Author Wade's skit, The Trainer's Nightmare. In court, attorneys for Cartoonist Walt Disney identified the device as a variation on "the reversal gag," easily traced it to Aesop. Said Superior Court Judge Thomas C. Gould, dismissing the suit and plagiarizing Ecclesiastes: ". . . It appears there is nothing new under...
...million dollars a year. Since 1926 when Founder J. J. Bausch died, the company has been headed by Son Edward, chairman of the board, now 83 and still active enough to enjoy bowling. He and numerous relatives have not only run Bausch & Lomb but owned all 40,000 shares of its common stock which was split into two classes. Last week, however, anxious to simplify the stock set-up and retire bank loans, mortgage bonds and all the old preferred stock, Chairman Bausch reclassified the common under one heading and offered 26,000 shares of new preferred...
Because of its war potentialities the Government's helium sales program establishes-after critical investigation of necessity-yearly quotas for any nation that applies for gas. So far only one nation, Germany, has applied and its share for 1938 is 17,900,000 cubic feet, enough to fill the LZ-130's 7,000,000-odd cubic foot gas bag and compensate it for the loss of about 300,000 cubic feet each time it crosses the Atlantic on the airship's projected 18 round trips this year. As helium costs about 1? per cubic foot...
...Hospital remained open through the siege and fall of Nanking. How Missionary Magee, the university professors and doctors and other missionaries thereafter fared, Timesman Durdin did not state nor did he indicate the prospects of the university and Ginling College at Japanese hands. Obviously, however, both would need their share, and probably more, of $300,000 which U. S. supporters of twelve Chinese Christian colleges and universities are currently trying to raise for emergency needs...
...lessons cost respectively $10 and $50. Sending these out keeps 60 Psychiana employes busy. The firm also markets eleven Psychiana textbooks, costing from $1.59 to $2.50- although Founder Robinson's business aids wondered last week if sales might not slump when Psychiana students form groups, share their books. Biggest Psychiana gross to date...