Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ownership of R. F. & P. Instead of a small independent carrier the I. C. C. was really tackling the six biggest and most powerful railroads in the East?Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line and Southern? joint proprietors of the R. F. & P. and sole beneficiaries of its excess profits. Counting on the I. C. C.'s discouraged attitude on recapture, these major carriers were ready to fight to the legal limit for their prosperous little subsidiary...
That St. Gandhi will visit the U. S. was still uncertain last week, Boston's confident Mayor notwithstanding. More important than trouser-talk was Mr. Gandhi's abrupt decision to constitute himself the sole delegate of his Indian National Congress at the Second Indian Round Table Conference in London. With breath-taking simplicity he explained, "This arrangement will cost less...
Essence. Thus the ghost-laying party was expensive to both the company and its bankers. The company has surrendered one-tenth of its equity in Loew's, also sole voting power for its Loew's stock. The bankers have apparently temporarily invested $45,000,000 in the Fox structure, although they are expected to sell these holdings to the public later. Yet Wall Street last week was inclined to view the whole affair as masterful handling of a tremendous problem. Men shuddered to think of what would have happened to the stock and bond markets had Fox defaulted...
...general impression has gotten about that Ed Wynn is quite a card. "Simple Simon," now at the Shubert, was evidently written for the sole purpose of allowing him to maintain that reputation, for the perfect fool is on the stage most of the time enlivening a rather preposterous musical comedy with bits of gay bandinage and sly drollery...
...foie gras after he saw geese being stuffed with food the better to fatten their livers. To visitors of untrained appetites Mr. Page explains such delicacies as East Indian poppadums, cheeses-marmalades, honeys from Syria, Portugal, Greece, England; Bombay duck; cox-combs in jelly; grouse pie; vintage marmalades; sole farcie en champagne. He explains that Fortnum & Mason anxiously awaits the Department of Agriculture's permission to sell rare soups, including those made from shark fins and kangaroo tails...