Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a three year tour of duty in the Pacific, Captain Bonney assumed command of the local unit last July. He served as commanding officer of a submarine squadron for 18 months, and as deputy commander of Service Squadron 10, and he had a hand in directing the outfit known as "Nimitz' secret weapon...
Prentice, a 21 year old student veteran himself, was elected last September to the presidency of the student organization at the group's national convention in Chicago. Following his election, he decided to take a term off from Swarthmore College and go on a speaking tour on behalf of the world government idea...
...Editor Ralph Ingersoll, who went out last week when Marshall Field decided that ads would go in, rolled out to St. Louis on a lecture tour. He had, he said, three projects in mind: to be a radio commentator, to edit a national magazine, to complete four books for which he had already written the outlines. All three could wait, said he, while he retired to his farm at Lakeville (Conn.) to "do a little quiet living for a while...
...Ventures. Planemaking will be a new venture for venturesome, 37-year-old Bob Fulton. After he graduated from Harvard in 1931, he studied architecture at the University of Vienna, motorcycled from London to Tokyo in 18 months, wrote a book (One Man Caravan, Harcourt, Brace; $3), made a lecture tour of the U.S., worked for Pan American Airways and formed Continental Inc. This last manufactured $6 million worth of aeronautical equipment. Main item: the "gunairstructor," Navy training device Fulton invented...
...Hope has also launched Hope Enterprises on its first ventures. A personal-appearance tour poured $500,000 into its coffers (net before taxes: $200,000); an independent movie, My Favorite Brunette, for which the stockholders put up $100,000 and the banks $1,000,000, will be released next March. Hope Records is now spending $25,000 to make recordings from Hope broadcasts. Hope's income from the broadcasts, $10,000 a week, along with money from his other noncorporate activities-part ownership of the Cleveland Indians, two pictures yearly with Paramount, etc.-goes into his pocket...