Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...epidemic of airplane crashes focused attention on radio beams, direction finders, loop antennae, etc., etc. (TIME, Jan. 25), Vincent Bendix decided to capitalize on it by amalgamating his radio interests into Bendix Radio Corp., biggest concern of its kind in the world. He bought 100 acres at Teterboro and took a three-year option on Teterboro Airport where he plans a $3,000,000 "aviation city" to manufacture present Bendix aviation products and develop new ones, such as blind landing systems, for which there is vital need. Some 500 men will soon start work on the site, 20 minutes from...
...Randolph Hearst proposed to borrow $35,500,000 from the public-$13,000,000 for Hearst Magazines Inc., $22,500,000 for Hearst Publications, Inc., which included two radio stations, nine dailies and the Sunday-supplement American Weekly. By no means did Mr. Hearst tell all. Although the registrations took in the entire string of Hearst magazines they covered only one-third of the Hearst newspapers, included nothing on such Hearst interests as King Features, Hearst Metrotone News, Cosmopolitan Productions (cinema). But revealed in some 250 pages of text and tabulations was many a Hearst publishing secret, many a Hearst...
...else has ever won the Boston Marathon more than twice. DeMar won it seven times, most recently in 1930. In 66 marathons, including three at the Olympic Games in 1912, 1924 and 1928, DeMar's record is 20 firsts, 12 seconds, nine thirds. Last year Clarence DeMar took time out from his marathon of marathons to write a short book about it which appeared last fortnight...
...occupies the right foreground. In the middle distance are a couple of characteristic de Chirico broken columns and an even more typical roly-poly, curly-tailed, prancing de Chirico horse, on which is mounted a man in a pink coat. Other figures seen are clothed in sack suits. "It took me about a week," said Artist de Chirico at last week's opening...
...game of the final series for the Stanley Cup, hockey's world championship. Referee Ion's decision, accepted after a five-minute altercation, meant instead that the Rangers had to take increasingly dangerous risks to tie the score. While they tried to do so, Detroit had and took opportunities to score twice more, once in the second period, again in the third, to clinch the game (3-to-0) and series...