Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...type of direct subsidy on a businesslike basis and getting the shipping lines to make new contracts. The first required tireless negotiation of claims and counterclaims. The second required Mr. Kennedy to figure out what shipping routes were necessary and reasonably economic to operate so as to be worth subsidizing, and to arrange for the building of enough up-to-date ships by the operators so that they will have a chance to compete successfully for trade on those routes. All this had to be done under an awkwardly framed law, a law so imperfect that many .people believed...
...Players opened typically this week with The Guardsman. The audience, summer people from Dublin and Antrim plus a few wandering Bostonians, was scarcely more anonymous than the cast. The White Mountain State has numerous similar organizations to divert vacationists from the cinema, such as the New London Players, Tarn worth's Barnstormers and the Keene Summer Theatre, which will present The Sap next week with Rosamond Castle Page in the leading role. Miss Page says she is John Wilkes Booth's great-granddaughter. Over the border in Vermont, the Brattleboro Theatre, on whose board sit Constance Morrow Morgan...
When William Randolph Hearst sold the little Fort Worth Record in 1925, it was the exception that proved the rule that he would never, so long as Hearst was HEARST, sell or disband a newspaper. But last week all rules were off in the Hearst empire of 26 newspapers, 13 magazines and assorted enterprises. The famed, New York American was dead, dropped like a cold potato. The queen-pin of his domain,* the paper that was called his journalistic "love child," on which he lavished money and affection and talent, was killed after a five-day conference...
...dividends. One of the first big companies to go the whole hog on this method of making everybody but the Collector of Internal Revenue happy was Sears, Roebuck & Co., which paid out approximately all it earned to its 34,500 stockholders, then proceeded to sell them $43,000,000 worth of new stock (TIME, Nov. 9). Since then the necessity to replenish working capital funds depleted by year-end dividends has been a big factor in starting up belated activity in new capital financing...
...Appeals. Activated Sludge's compensation in that case may make Milwaukee's payment look like small change. All patents which Activated Sludge controlled in the U. S. have now run out their 17 years, but the company still has suits pending against New York City, Fort Worth. Tex. and nearly 100 other cities. Back royalties and settlements secured since 1934 include: Cleveland $85,000, Houston $75,000, Indianapolis $73,000. San Antonio $58,000, Columbus $40,000, Peoria $23,000, Cuba...