Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Changes in instruction of third-year students in the Law School, emphasizing instruction in the organization and presentation of legal materials together with increased opportunities for seminar study, will be put into effect this next academic year, Dean James M. Landis announced today...
Nine promotions on the faculty of the Business School, effective next September, were announced today. The new positions...
...Martin. He had hoped to fill the $15,000,000 bomber order which the War Department simultaneously placed with his big competitor, Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif. But the fact that he did not get the big order was not even a serious setback to Glenn Martin today. His $10,000.000 plant outside Baltimore had just delivered 117 B10 bombers to The Netherlands, was working on a ten-million dollar order for new gull-winged flying boats for the Navy, 215 of the 167 bombers for France. Altogether his backlog of orders came to $39,500,000 worth...
...never does he go by airplane. Few years ago only stockholders in the company were Martin and Motorman Louis Chevrolet. But in 1934, with funds needed for expansion, 325,000 shares of Glenn L. Martin Co. were put on the market at $11.50 a share (current price: $34.625). Today, Martin remains well in control with some 37% of the stock in his hands, but the bankers who are now interested in his company have taken him out of the air. Because Martin is the Martin Company they are taking no chances. His life is insured...
...been more popular in France. Its plot withers under synopsis like a mushroom in the sun: a huge, passionate peasant becomes the last inhabitant of an abandoned mountain village, marries a stray waif, and together they begin to cultivate and repeople the abandoned land. Sample Giono description: "And today there had been rain. Like a bird it arrived, settled, and went away. The shadow of its wings had been seen passing over the hills of Néviėres. It came back and hovered around Aubignane, then flew off towards the plains. After that the sun came...