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...Japanese Datsun, which is an inferior copy of the Baby Austin, would cost $786 landed in San Francisco. †For such airplanes as that of Alcock & Brown, first to fly the North Atlantic...
...earliest Harvard diploma is existence, drawn up in 1676 for George Alcock, class of 1673, was obtained in this way, the exhibit indicates...
...diploma in the archives belonged to James Bowdoin of the class of 1771, later governor of the Commonwealth, and measures 24 by 13 inches. Contrasted to the is the smallest, 11 by 5 1/2 inches, which is also the oldest one in the collection, having been presented to George Alcock...
...perfect combination. Messrs. Haight & Alcock had such clients as Standard Oil of Indiana and A. O. Smith Corp. But they found time for daily table-thumping conferences with Lawyer Goldstein, who did most of the drudgery. In four years, Mr. Goldstein spent 14,000 hours on the case, wore out three secretaries. He grew so preoccupied that he failed to recognize friends in the halls of his office. Messrs. Haight, Alcock & Goldstein took the case on a contingent basis-no victory, no fees, no expenses. They spent thousands from their own pockets and borrowed $210,000 from the City...
From their $1,552,000 fee, Messrs. Haight, Alcock & Goldstein will have to repay their loan from the City of Chicago. High-bracket income taxes will take another $400,000 to $500,000. The division of the remainder was secret, but La Salle Street expected Lawyer Goldstein to receive at least a half for his four-year campaign...