Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Match Re-lighted. After six months of investigation and negotiation Swedish Match Co., springboard from which the late Ivar Kreuger leaped to fantastic heights of finance, was reorganized last week, first of the Kreugered interests to burn bright again. Granted a moratorium last May, the company has been run by three administrators (similar to U S receivers) appointed by the Swedish Government. Cooperating with creditors and representatives of affiliated Kreusrer & Toll (the investment company) and International Match Corp., they evolved a workable scheme and the moratorium was lifted. Creditors were not asked to scale down their claims; they will receive...
...Mayor's first-term activities had been passed on by the people and were therefore beyond the Governor's scrutiny. Though he lost his plea. Mayor Walker's lawyer hailed this decision as "a great victory" for his client. Later it was to prove the springboard by which the Mayor leaped out of office...
...cabbage patch was once considered too outspoken. It is Grand Hotel in an obstetrical ward?the principal members of its cast are seven expectant mothers, one of them equipped with twins. The old theme of a father waiting for his child to be born is only the springboard episode for Life Begins. Before the main plot develops, the audience has heard the moans of the "labor room," seen a pregnant woman of the world (Glenda Farrell) drink whiskey from a hot water bottle, and sympathized with an unmarried mother when she says that soldiers who die on the field...
Minnow Rawls had one more surprise left. She clambered onto the 10-ft. springboard, began manipulating her tiny sunburnt person toward the water as though she were impersonating the knife in a game of mumblety-peg. A brilliant half-gaynor helped her get the points she needed to win the event, 78.64 to 77.75, from goldilocked Georgia Coleman, U. S. diving champion since...
...announcing that she would attempt to wrest the McFadden seat in the House away from its present plump occupant. In the April primaries she would be a candidate for the Republican Congressional nomination. Long ambitious to sit in the House, she unhesitatingly seized the McFadden outburst as a springboard for her campaign. Said she: "Every one must resent an unsubstantiated accusation of treason against the President." No idle threat against Congressman McFadden was Mrs. Pinchot's candidacy. Great-granddaughter of the late great Peter Cooper, Manhattan philanthropist and manufacturer of the first U. S. steam locomotive,* daughter...