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...great advantage. Radio Corp. had plenty of ready cash At the close of 1934, RCA's balance sheet showed cash and securities of $23,679,000 Last October, Mr. Sarnoff sold half of Radio Corp.'s interest in Radio-Keith-Orpheum to Atlas Corp. and Lehman Bros, for some $5,000,000. These investment houses also took an option on the rest of RCA's holding in RKO for another $5,000,000, payable before the end of 1937. Last November Mr. Sarnoff sold RCA's interest in Electric & Musical Industries, Ltd. (British Radio...
...invisible pane, returned with hammer & chisel, chopped a hole in invisibility, walked off with three diamond rings worth $36,000. Police soon caught the culprit, recovered two of the three rings. Other invisible glass windows have been installed at the Chrysler Building showroom, Lord & Taylor's, Brooks Bros, and Woodward & Lothrop (Washington). Installations are being made at Mandel Bros. (Chicago) and Jordan Marsh (Boston...
President of Libbey-Owens-Ford is John David Biggers, one of the old Owens Bottle Co. executives in the days before Owens became Owens-Illinois. After leaving Owens in 1926, he was managing director of Dodge Bros. (Britain) Ltd., for one year, later vice president of Graham Brothers Corp., still later of Graham-Paige International Corp. Then he got out of motors and back into glass, has been head of Libbey-Owens-Ford since...
...Gimbel Bros, department store awarded its prize for Philadelphia's Woman of the Year to stately Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife of the editor of the Saturday Evening Post. During 1935 busy Mrs. Lorimer helped return grand opera to Philadelphia, sponsored charities, presided over the Republican Women of Pennsylvania, led the Republican Women of Philadelphia in a threat to plant protest potatoes on their front lawns (TIME...
...ferocity of smaller seals. Delivered alive at a zoo, they fetch from $5,000 to $10,000 apiece, eat about 150 lb. of fresh fish a day. Goliath, not a circus sea elephant him self, bore a great circus name. Goliath I and II were famed troupers for Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's Circus (TIME. April 18, 1932). Goliath III was last seen in the U. S. on Atlantic City's Steel Pier. Because he ate too much to show his promoters a profit, he was shipped last July to the Hanover Zoo. Roland was originally...