Word: wagons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wedding in 1924 was not quite so quiet as the bride & groom had planned. The best man, famed Watercolorist John Marin, met the couple at the Weehawken ferry with the Chandler touring car his son, John Jr. still drives, smashed a lamp post and a grocery wagon and fought with a policeman before his friends were delivered to a justice of the peace at Cliffside...
...Avenue fun is not the antics of this troubled triangle, but the half-dozen high-spots sprinkled through the picture, usually with excellent accompanying melodies by Irving Berlin. Samples: Dick Powell hunting for The Girl on the Police Gazette, Madeleine Carroll and Dick Powell chivying a bean-wagon proprietor (Billy Gilbert), Alice Faye's deliciously cool contralto singing This Year's Kisses. Best moments of all, however, are contributed by the insane Ritz Brothers, who put on three zany acts: 1) The Arctic Explorers; 2) The Russian Band; and 3) The Lonely Professor, to the tune...
...after year collaborated on such historic hits as Dnloy (1921), To the Ladies (1922), Merton of the Movies (1922), Helen of Troy, New York (1923), Beggar on Horseback (1924), The Cocoannts (1925), The Royal Family (1927), Animal Crackers (1928), June Moon (1929), Once in a Lifetime (1930), The Band Wagon (1931), Of Thee I Sing (1931), Dinner at Eight (1932), Let 'em Eat Cake (1933), Merrily We Roll Along (1934), First Lady (1935). This season George Kaufman was once more Broadway's Man-of-the-Year when he turned out two more smashing box-office successes: Stage Door...
...Detroit Automobile Show in 1930 Mr. Sherman got a batch of orders, reached a production of 189 trailers by 1933. That year his sales were $56,000 By 1935 he sold 1,100 trailers for $500,000. Last year, working night & day. Cox ered Wagon turned out 6,000 trailers worth some $3,000,000. With added facilties provided out of the new financing, Covered Wagon hopes to hit the 20,000 mark in 1936. Total U. S. trailer production was an estimated...
Still small are even Covered Wagon profits-$4.889 in 1934. about $10,000 in 1935 and $86,000 for the first nine month of last year. Only preferred stock (30,000 shares) will be sold to the public in the proposed financing. All common stock (295,000 shares) is owned by Founder Sherman. But each preferred share will be convertible into two shares of common stock, giving the public its first chance in the U. S. trailer's future...