Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whatever arrangements Mr. Fox and his bankers might or might not reach. But when Mr. Fox announced that Fox Film assets were $73,000,000 in excess of liabilities, the stockholders, reassured, decided that no immediate receivership was necessary. As another sedative for stockholders, the company also last week announced that it will soon launch a $20,000,000 production schedule, the biggest it has ever undertaken...
...Ford Sinclair's Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. have been: 1) will merge with Prairie Oil & Gas; 2) will merge or become affiliated with the oil interests of its bankers, Bancamerica-Blair Co.; 3) is being bought in the open market by one of the Standard Oil group. Last week to this trio was added another rumor: 4) will acquire Rio Grande Oil Co., producing in Southern California and Texas, operating service stations in these states and New Mexico and Arizona. If Rumor No. 4 is true it will be Sinclair's debut on the California oil scene...
...Last week were added to American & Foreign Power's roster seven more names, the most important being Mendoza, fourth largest city in Argentine. Mendoza, "Gateway to Chile," is the centre.of the famed Western Argentine wine district. Other new American & Foreign Power Co. customers: Mar del Plata, San Pedro. San Nicolas, Junin, Azul, San Luis, all in the Province of Buenos Aires, rich in cattle and crops...
...Last week the 30th annual National Automobile Show (see p. 43) was held in Manhattan's gaudy Grand Central Palace where gleaming cars stood incongruously on rich carpets and glib salesmen explained their various attractions. Obviously the recent U. S. renascence in bathroom fixtures and furniture has smitten the automobile. Some of the artists responsible for the renascence are now working on auto bodies: Norman Bel Geddes, jack-of-all-design; Joseph Urban, Ziegfeld and Metropolitan Opera scenic artist; Helen Dryden, painter and fashion artist; the house of Cartier, jewelers...
...increase in crime, together with a new insurance policy to cover an old racket, were last week announced by R. A. Algire, vice president of National Surety Co. ("We bond more people than any other company in the world.") In 1929, said Mr. Algire, surety companies collected 35 million dollars in premiums representing burglary, robbery and theft insurance to the amount of five billion dollars. New York State spent nine million and New York City $6,500,000 to buy crime insurance. Mr. Algire estimated that in 1930 the surety companies would pay out large claims, as he anticipated...