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...Seiberling founded Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1898, was ousted in 1921 by Dillon, Read & Co. He immediately started Seiberling Rubber Co., in six years boosted it from 330th to seventh place in the industry. Last week, in Adrian H. Muller & Son's musty old auction rooms at No. 18 Vesey Street, Manhattan, he gave an exhibition of his financial talents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Little Giants | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...denies that college football is a moneymaker and cites, as example, an institution "that was the country's most sensational football college." Last year, he says, when it was sold at auction and bought by bondholders, it was discovered that it was running $72,000 a year behind its budget...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hutchins Opposes Early September Gridiron Workout | 11/29/1938 | See Source »

...published them. Last week they became effective. Lawyers agreed with Attorney General Cummings when he described them as "the most striking advance in the administration of justice in half a century." The new rules reminded card-playing legalists of the changes that came over bridge when it went from auction into contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Substantial Justice | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Deal, N. J., the 38-room summer home of 77-year-old William Crapo Durant ("Godfather of the Motor Car Industry," "Gunga Din of Wall St.") was put up for auction with its furnishings. A Kermanshah rug appraised at $6,000 went for $750, a $6,500 tapestry for $275, the $500,000 house itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...State confronted him with this boast, last week warned that if he did not kick in $25,200 it would repeat last month's Whiddon confiscation-in which 20 Whiddon Cash Stores, owing $43,000 in back chain-store taxes, were seized by the State and sold at auction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Advantages of Mass Buying | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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