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...Saying farewell to Walter Runciman, hard-headed president of the British Board of Trade who had come to discuss a Reciprocal Trade Agreement (TIME, Feb. i). Franklin Roosevelt presented that longtime shipping man with one of his treasures, a three-foot model of the four-masted schooner Shenandoah...
...Shenandoah broke in two. The R-101 exploded. The R-100 was scrapped...
public with a profound apathy to further U. S. airship experimentation. Against this defeatism a small devoted band of lighter-than-air enthusiasts has railed with indefatigable zeal. Leader and inspiration of this lively minority is Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl, who survived the Shenandoah disaster and now heads the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, is the nation's No. 1 airship man. Week after week for years articles and speeches by Commander Rosendahl have peppered the pages of newspapers and aviation magazines. Dozens of expert committees have made reports agreeing with him. But until Germany's Hindenburg made...
...Goldman Sachs reached an unenviable peak in 1929 under the domination of Waddill Catchings, leading apologist of the New Era, co-author of The Road to Plenty. It was the imperious Mr. Catchings who led the conservative old house into the investment trust fireworks of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Shenandoah Corp. and Blue Ridge Corp. When his road to plenty ran up a tree, Mr. Catchings got out, joining his old friend, Utilitarian Harrison Williams...
...Since 1929 Atlas has bought 22 investment trusts, sold two. Last week President Odlum announced the last step in a corporate simplification program which will leave Atlas a single $110,000,000 unit. To be consolidated with the parent company are the three remaining subsidiary trusts, Shenandoah Corp., Sterling Securities Corp. and Pacific Eastern Corp., once called Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. At the same time two outside directors will be taken on the Atlas board, Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s Robert E. Wood and United Fruit Co.'s Samuel Zemurray, for other news of whom...