Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This year the Wallendas, originators of the breathtaking moving human pyramid on the high wire, and their Ringling colleagues, the Grotofents, have felt the pressure of competition from the Cole Bros.-Beatty team of the Gretonas. One of the Gretonas goes out on the wire and, holding precariously onto his balancing pole, lies down on his back and rolls over. The Wallendas and Grotofents now not only match this but, as if it were not enough to turn a spectator's head snowy white, send one of their number out on the wire to do a drunken rhumba...
...Town (Universal) is an example of the peanut-on-a-pyramid school of cinema. The peanut is a story about a struggling young orchestra leader (George Murphy) and a stage-struck heiress (Doris Nolan) who, when he makes it plain to her that she is a failure as a chorus girl, retaliates by hiring him to put on a show in her skyscraper night club. The pyramid is the irrelevantly impressive edifice of songs, dances and specialty acts supporting this picayune and wrinkled anecdote. On a broad base of music by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson, Universal's first...
...Williams' observance of this principle. By 1924 he had spent $2,072,000 to increase his holdings to 104,671 of Central States' 109,038 outstanding common shares, a 96% interest and complete voting control. As shares in the utilities at the base of his pyramid rose, the shares in companies above them rose a little faster. On the super-top holding companies the effect of this multiplying leverage was prodigious. Central States stock began to expand and divide with the exuberance of yeast cells. Between 1924 and 1929 the common was split 60-for-1, the value...
Harley Lyman Clarke continued to sputter on the sidelines last week after the 77B petition was accepted. Meanwhile Mr. Odium, holding 40% of the company's debt, prepared to take an active hand in remodeling the power pyramid into what the Public Utility Act of 1935 calls a "demonstrably useful" holding company...
Opening his show with a public dissection of the Van Sweringen railroad pyramid, the Senator at first plugged the theme: how little the Cleveland bachelors owned, how much they controlled. His star witness was George Alexander Ball, whose name is a household word to millions of farmers' wives who put up their preserves in his "Ball Perfect Mason" jars. Mr. Ball, a pale, grey-mustached septuagenarian with a frosty fringe around his bald cranium, told how he and Cleveland's George Ashley Tomlinson, to whom the late O. P. Van Sweringen appealed for aid in 1935, formed Midamerica...