Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sterling, three of its subsidiaries* and its two top officers signed the decree. They plead nolo contendere to charges of restricting markets by agreement with I. G. Farbenindustrie, the German Dye Trust. They agreed to pay fines totaling $26,000 and to break all contractual relations with the Farben. They also agreed never again to promise any other drug manufacturer not to compete in foreign markets...
Lieut. Commander Robert Lovett became a banker, a partner in Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. So did his chum of Locust Valley, Yale and Dunkirk, Lieut. Commander Artemus Gates who became president of the New York Trust Co., a director of many corporations including TIME Inc. Early this year Franklin Roosevelt revived the post of Assistant Secretary of War for Air (it had lapsed under the New Deal) and named Bob Lovett to the job. Last week he moved again, appointed a new Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air-this time Artemus Gates. In 25 years the Yale Unit had flown...
...group of café debs elected Betty Cordon, 18, official No. 1 Glamor Girl of the new season. Particulars: her height is 5 ft. 1½ in., weight 100 lb., waist 21 in., hair blonde, eyes grey-green. Her father is a banker (assistant vice president of Manufacturers Trust Co.). She likes chitlin's (pig's intestines). Her comment on the election: "Ridiculous. . . . A glamor girl should be tall, dark, and svelte. . . . I don't know what my parents will think...
Kansas City police hunted L. C. Barrow, one of the Southwest's notorious Barrow brothers (Clyde and Buck were killed by cops). Charge: stealing a dozen cans of caviar. . .Charles Ray, 50, corn-fed juvenile of the silent films, went broke in Hollywood. . .The Safe Deposit and Trust Co. of Baltimore, guardians of eight-year-old Christopher Smith Reynolds, son of Torchsinger Libby Holman and the late, tobacco-wealthy Zachary Smith Reynolds, declared it cost them $6,944.44 a month to maintain the boy. . . Harry K. Thaw, 70, wealthy playboy slayer of Architect Stanford White in 1906, turned...
...into the aluminum drive as head of OCD, rangy Bob McConnell of OPM's conservation division already had a plan. It called for collection of the scrap by local committees, its sale to junk dealers who would sell it to the smelters. But the Little Flower did not trust junk dealers. Too many already were bootlegging aluminum-utensil scrap for as high as 40? a pound (Leon Henderson's ceiling...