Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kermit Roosevelt, 44, able second son of the late great Theodore and founder-president of Roosevelt Steamship Co., was elected a director of Atlas Tack Corp. Elected at the same time was John Sargent, partner of President Roosevelt's eldest son James in the Lawson Insurance Agency of Boston...
Early this year when Atlas Tack was kicking around the New York Stock Exchange between $1.50 and $2 a share, a group including Frank Aloysius Tichenor, publisher of Alfred Emanuel Smith's New Outlook, Francis Dawson Gallatin, Manhattan lawyer, George Woodruff, treasurer of A Century of Progress, thought they saw possibilities in the little $1,300,000 company. By last month these gentlemen were in control and with some friends were duly elected to the board. By last week when Messrs. Roosevelt & Sargent became tackmen, Atlas stock was selling for $28.50 a share-its high for the year...
...Atlas Tack's main plant is in Fairhaven, Mass., birthplace of the late Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers, who returned to rebuild and landscape his home town and incidentally to buy Atlas. But his family sold Atlas to some Boston bankers in 1920; rugs grew more popular than carpets and the tack trade languished. No dividends have been paid in 13 years and as many deficits as profits have been reported. It still makes 7,000,000 lb. of tacks a year, also brads and rivets, but its line of 24,000 items now includes metal buttons, shoe eyelets...
When General Hure launched his campaign last year, the remnants of the Berber rebels were loose in the desert south of the Atlas Mountains. In a slow encircling movement he herded them northwest to the rim of the desert. His plodding columns closed in from north, east and southeast like beaters in a lion hunt. On the south and southwest, crack Legion regiments waited for the prey to enter the trap. Slowly, suspiciously, the Berbers, carrying their women and children, rode into the mountains up four confluent valleys a year ago last spring. The trap was sprung...
...Atlas Powder...