Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Death Prognosticor. Dr. Felix Bernstein, a German refugee in Manhattan, developed a machine which measures the elasticity of the crystalline lens of the eye. According to the elasticity of a person's lens, Dr. Bernstein can tell whether that person will live (barring infections, disease and accidents) until ripe old age, or will drop dead from heart failure or apoplexy around...
...Edna L. Bernstein would like to get $350 for a portrait of a petunia. George Constant, who painted zinnias and blue crabs, would take any reasonable offer...
Last week Arnold Bernstein finally got ashore from the Tel Aviv, hopped a Paris express, turned up at the North Atlantic Passenger Conference. There the No. 1 independent was welcomed with open arms into the tight little autocracy which rules the North Atlantic. After the doors of the conference opened, it was announced that Member-elect Bernstein had agreed to up his rates $2.50 one-way, $5 round-trip for the Königstein, Ilsenstein and Gerolstein, charge a minimum of $115 one-way, $207 round-trip for his 16.000-ton German Red Star Liners Pennland and Westernland...
...Owner Bernstein was soon to receive a rude jolt. The North Atlantic Freight Conference, meeting in Manhattan, refused him membership on the ground that he had violated an agreement by buying Red Star Line and thus entering the general cargo field. With threats of a freight rate war on the horizon, bewildered Arnold Bernstein cabled a protest to the U. S. Shipping Board Bureau, felt sure the new "misunderstanding" would be straightened out, planned to travel to the U. S. next month...
...Making her first trip from Antwerp under Bernstein ownership last week, the Pennland arrived at Hoboken without a single passenger aboard. Pending an agreement with the Conference, the line had refused to sell reservations, took a loss rather than start a rate...