Word: sleighs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would like to find a sleigh...
...Sabin was once president. They bought 6,000 shares of Austin Silver in March 1937. It was between $2.50 and $3. By the end of the year it had dropped to a dismal 871/2?. But while the price went downhill, the four had no intention of going on a sleigh ride with it. They brought suit for the difference between the purchase price and the price on the day they filed the petition. They contended that Section 11 had been violated because the registration statement failed to mention options on the stock given to underwriters...
...topflight Japanese stage & screen star is Miss Yoshiki Okada, billed soon to appear in a leading Tokyo theatre. For a time she was the Viscountess Takeuchi, recently was said to have taken as her lover a Japanese Communist writer, Ryokichi Sugimoto. Last week this pair were reported out sleighing on the snow-covered island of Sakhalin, half Japanese, half Soviet. Suddenly the Japanese sleigh driver found himself being nudged in the ribs by Comrade Sugimoto with a pistol. The driver halted, watched, terrified and helpless, while the actress and her Red put on skis, started down a steep slope...
...reindeer-meat conscious, so that rich Arthur & Leonard Baldwin could realize profits on their $6,000,000 reindeer business in Alaska. Mr. Newman sold many a leading newspaper his Christmas circulation promotion stunt which had as its climax the arrival of Santa Claus on local streets in a jingling sleigh drawn by a reindeer team. With a publicist's acumen, Mr. Newman acclimated his animals to Klaxon horns, Ford motors and shouting Eskimo youngsters while still in Alaska, coaxed them from a moss to alfalfa diet...
...with the first heat waves of 1937, the $1,000.000 result successfully combines the current vogue for mildly lunatic comedy with the pure visual satisfaction of importations like Du World's The Bine Light, H. R. Sokal's Slalom. Best small part: George Davis as a Swiss sleigh driver who, with the same impenetrable calm, drives Kay to the hotel when she arrives, rescues her when she plunges into a snowbank on skis, drives her to the station when she leaves...