Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grim part of the U. S. songwriting industry has long been the swift jump to record great tragedies and the eager wait for the profits therefrom. A catalog of such news songs would include: The Wreck of the Old 97, The Death of Floyd Collins, The Hall-Mills Case, Little Marion Parker, The Wreck of the Shenandoah, The Sinking of the Vestris. Last month, day after Will Rogers and Wiley Post crashed in Alaska, Songwriter Freddie Rose (Red Hot Mamma) whipped out pieces on that disaster, passed them on to Ray Whitley, a onetime rancher who has a nasal voice...
Last March the Manhattan firm of Salomon Brothers & Hutzler unceremoniously ditched this ancient underwriting tradition, marketed $43,000,000 of Swift & Co. bonds on a straight commission basis. Total selling cost for Swift & Co. was $172,000. Last week Salomon Brothers & Hutzler again startled their fellow bankers by selling $50,000,000 of 3½% Socony-Vacuum Corp. bonds for a commission of four-tenths of 1% or $200,000. Fortnight before, Kuhn, Loeb underwrote a $50,000,000 Pennsylvania Co. issue for 2 ½%?a relatively low "spread" for underwriting. Total cost...
...unique feature of the library is its advertisement collection, in which students who are preparing themselves for berths in advertisement agencies may study the growth of this field from the days when one Benjamin Franklin was urging an unwary public to try the "new, swift coaches to Philadelphia" down to our modern style of ads with the American public daily engrossed in the adventures of the young couple whose romance was blighted until a kind friend mentioned Lifebuoy...
...their men with the status of the battle. Most exciting inci dents were the routing of a detachment by a hornet's nest, the flight of an umpire with a red flag from two belligerent cows, the capture of Hill 300 by the 27th Divi sion's swift advance and its subsequent loss because of: i) failure of communica tions, 2) an attack of real ptomaine poisoning which completely incapacitated two batteries...
...swift-rushing River Salzach in the Austrian Tyrol lies Salzburg, rimmed on three sides by operatic-looking mountains. There Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and there on a lake outside the town Max Reinhardt owns a baroque castle, where he long ago began giving sumptuous parties for his troupe and for such visitors as Arturo Toscanini, Feodor Chaliapin, Paul Drennan Cravath, Greta Garbo, Edward of Wales...