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...Profits, No Loans. "Bankers just aren't interested in loaning us money after seeing our books," says Jack Ayer of Trans-Texas Airways, which has never declared a dividend, last year netted barely $10,000 on operating revenues of $5,997,000. Almost every other feeder is in the same squeeze. When Central Airlines asked the Fort Worth National Bank for more than $2,000,000 to replace its DC-35, the bank could only take a sternly "dim view"; Central has already been to the bank 107 times since 1949, is still...
...Great Career Girl. Mrs Ayer was no less a Victorian than Mrs. Gladstone and (like all the best Victorians) no less unorthodox, but she was more spectacular about it. She spent 150,000 of husband Bert Ayer's iron and steel dollars on her Chicago household expenses each year. She read highbrow magazines and struggled to get Bert to like her French dishes (the French novels were beyond him). Alas, he threw her magazines in the fire and, instead of eating, drank. Harriet, "bird of gorgeous plumage strayed into a hen yard," might have had a long, drawn...
...only in blue tights"? Did he suborn witnesses to swear it was Harriet? These questions are not resolved. What is clear is the fact that Harriet was put into an insane asylum. New York in the '90s was no place or time to go mad in. Harriet Hubbard Ayer had a terrible time of it for 14 months...
...even better campaigning against the wasp waist and for shorter skirts, and announcing that yes, it was very wrong to eat peas off a knife. Perhaps gallant General Grubb might have conceded that, regardless of who won the Civil War, American women won the peace. Harriet Hubbard Ayer fought to the last man and had the final victory of picking up poor old Bert Ayer's unpaid tabs before he died. And. some say, holding his hand...
...Imbecile † Sloppy ** Sallow †† Prematurely aged * The firm eventually went into receivership. Today's Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Inc. (now a subsidiary of Nestle-Le Mur Co.), though named for her, is a different business, founded...