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...estate, department stores, automobile business, manufacturing and many other enterprises. I have not sunk a lot of money in the South west Air Fast Express or in anything else, and for your information I could dispose of my inter est in the Southwest Air Fast Express for a nice profit...
Reporting for the first half year of 1930 United Corp., Bonbright-Morgan utility holding company, showed for the period a net profit of $4,107,453. About $3,000,000 resulted from dividends on stocks held and about $1,000,000 from sale of securities. A pleasing aspect of such a holding company as United Corp. is the fact that its operating expenses are virtually negligible, since it has no product to manufacture and no plant to run. Thus United Corp.'s expenses during the six months period amounted to $154,679. For the entire year the company expects...
...plans was the late Edward William Bok (TIME, Jan. 20) editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, son-in-law of Publisher Curtis, who bequeathed $850,000 to the center. William Curtis Bok, his son, is heading a corporation which will manage the Curtis center on a non-profit basis. The finished edifice will house: an auditorium seating 4,000, for use by the Philadelphia orchestra, the Philadelphia Grand Opera company, the Philadelphia forum; a civic theatre seating 1,500; a "junior auditorium" seating 600, for recitals, lectures, rehearsals and "meetings of an intimate nature...
...explaining: "The crime problem in Chicago is rendered acute by the ease with which criminals can enter and leave the city. . . . Yet it is this geographical position that makes it a city of over 3,000,000 population. . . . You have found time to read about crime in Chicago without profit to yourself. Spend a little more time and learn how you can take up the slack in your business by sales in the Chicago area...
Died. William Bolitho (Ryall), 39, South African English-Dutchman, one-time fisticuffer, ship's stoker, reporter. Wartime British Army lieutenant (buried alive in a Somme dugout and consequently rendered unconscious for weeks, unhealthy for life), Paris correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, author (Murder for Profit, Leviathan, Twelve Against the Gods, Italy under Mussolini, Cancer of Empire), dramatist (Overture, 1920), recently a vivid, penetrating triweekly colyumist for the New York World: of peritonitis after an appendectomy; at Avignon, France...