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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attempted Theft. The Roma is the huge Bellanca sesquiplane which C. Sabelli was to fly to Rome last year. But her size and fame were no deterrents to six presumed thieves who last week audaciously attempted to take her from her hangar at Wilmington, Del. Bellanca guards forewarned by telephone frustrated the attempt and pleased George Haldeman, co-pilot of Ruth Elder's trans-Atlantic flight, now Bellanca's chief test pilot, who privately plans to fly the Roma whither publicity abounds...
...Robert T. Neely, Orville A. Dickinson, opened an orange-juice stand in Manhattan. Each paid in $200. Next year, they opened four more stands, increased the capital stock. But thirsty people did not take kindly to street-corner orangeade. Business lagged. In 1915, Stockholder Dickinson, practically insolvent, transferred his share of stock for a debt cancellation to one Walter L. Titus, through Titus's brother. New-Stockholder Titus, little interested in the money-losing company, "wholly abandoned the enterprise," refused to contribute much-needed additional funds. Soon a new company, Burnee Corp., was formed-consisting of Stockholder Neely...
...take Zev jardiniere...
...Three Americans, three Hungarians, three Russians and an Italian will next year take seats left vacant by ten men in the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. One of them, First 'Cellist Alfred Wallenstein, descends from the famed militarist immortalized by Schiller...
...Three Americans, three Hungarians, three Russians and an Italian will next year take seats left vacant by ten men in the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. One of them, First 'Cellist Alfred Wallenstein, descends from the famed militarist immortalized by Schiller...