Word: wilbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Wilbert Lewis Smith, 85, industrialist, one of the organizers of L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co., chairman of the board of L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc.; in Syracuse...
...raccoons. The hoot of the owl drifting on the nocturnal air above the drone of countless insects and the croaking of frogs made the night forbidding. . . . [One pioneer's account] : 'On one occasion I was out with some other gentlemen, John Montgomery, Morgan Thurston and Alex Wilbert in search of a hog which I owned and which was missing, when we were brought face to face with a large she bear and two small cubs...
Edward Austin Fellowships, of $675 each, for study in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, to John H. Franklin, of Tulsa, Oklohoma; Barnaby C. Keeney 1G, of West Bartford, Connecticut; Wilbert E. Moore, of Eugene, Oregon; and Arthur LeR. Cohen, of Stockton, California. Cohen has also received a University Fellowship...
...Broadcasting System on Oct. 1, 1934. They agreed to seek advertisers who wanted to utilize both stations, but not to interfere with each other's local programs. WOR and WGN also began exchanging sustaining (noncommercial) programs. Alfred Justin McCosker, president of WOR, became chairman of M. B. S.; Wilbert E. Macfarlane, vice president and business manager of the Chicago Tribune, became president. Mr. Macfarlane has been interested in WGN since the Tribune opened its station in 1925, has refused to let the chains dominate its policies. First taking N. B. C. programs, then C. B. S. features, WGN dropped...
...Economist A. Wilbert Zelomek of Manhattan's International Statistical Bureau announced last week that in the first eight months of 1936 the U. S. people spent as much money ($5,600,000,000) on automobiles as they did on food. Up 5% were expenditures on food, up 20% were expenditures on automobiles, which included not only old and new sales but fuel, oil, service, accessories...