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Aviation Corp. also holds 135,194 shares (9-57%) of globe-girdling Pan American Airways. And one of ATCO's chief stockholders-Manhattan Bankers Lehman Bros.-has a partner, Robert Lehman, on Pan Am's board. What makes this interesting to flying men is that Lehman Bros, owns the largest single interest (38.7%) in American Export (steamship) Lines, which controls American Export Airlines. And American Export Airlines is currently after a CAA authorization to compete with Pan Am on the Atlantic...
...Manning, largest single stockholder and vice chairman of the ATCO board ($30,000 and up a year), was rusticating in California, fast-moving Emanuel got a line on the 320,000 shares of ATCO owned by the London Schroder interests. These he placed with two friendly interests: Lehman Bros, and General American Transportation Corp., which was fat with funds from building and leasing railroad rolling stock and seeking new markets in aviation...
...Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Warner Bros.) is 606, the arsenical compound that the dumpy, cigar-puffing Jewish genius found he could shoot into syphilitics and kill the pale spirochetes of syphilis without killing their victim. Warner Brothers have long been afraid that the bullet might ricochet from the Hays Office, the State censorship boards, the U. S. cinemillions conditioned to regard any mention of syphilis as indecent. Consulted in advance, after a fortnight's solemn thought the Hays experts spoke. Their verdict: the word syphilis must be mentioned as seldom as possible in the picture; on no account...
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...Fighting 69th (Warner Bros.), a fictionized account of the intimate life and exploits of Manhattan's famed World War regiment continues, in slightly modified form, Warners' long time efforts to refine through suffering the character of their ace triggerman, James Cagney. Sometimes the effort has resulted in Mr. Cagney's death (The Roaring Twenties). Sometimes he survives (Here Comes the Navy). In either case his reward has usually been the love of a pure, high minded girl. As Jerry Plunkett, a Brooklyn braggart, James Cagney is not only a disgrace to his semisavage comrades, but he turns...