Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saginaw, Mich. dressmaker, Bill Watson-who is earning his way through college by waiting on table and acting as secretary to Prize Fighter Joe Louis-is considered the best all-round track man in the U. S. Besides winning the Big Ten championship in the shot put, broad jump and discus three years in a row, he has cleared the high jump at 6 ft. 5 ¾ in., has run 100 yd. in 10.1 sec., 440 yd. in 55 sec. If he can brush up on the pole vault, javelin, high hurdles and the 1,500-meter...
...only technological house cleaning has put U. S. Rubber in the black at this low rate of operations. Engineer Davis has swung a sharp hatchet cutting Rubber's debt from $101,572,400 to $42,144,000, its yearly interest bill from almost $6,000,000 to well under $2,000,000. Last May he got three insurance companies who own its debt to accept an interest cut from 4¼% to 3⅝% just as though he were hiring the money at the market...
...four, alike as two Dromios, set out from home one summer morning in 1889 to look for their first jobs. They met at noon at "Four Corners" in downtown Rochester, N. Y. Rob had landed a $10-a-month job as messenger for the Rochester Trust & Safe Deposit Co. Bill had a $10-a-month job as messenger for the Commercial National Bank...
Last week, contriving to avoid all the fuss & feathers they could, Rob and Bill celebrated their 50th anniversary in Rochester banking, Rob as president of Rochester Trust (third largest in town with resources of $42,540,898), Bill as vice president of the Lincoln-Alliance Bank & Trust Co., largest in Rochester and one of the 100 largest in the U. S. (resources, $86,487,946). That night they sat in honor seats at separate country-club dinners, smiled at many a twin-crack and went home early...
...Boys-from-Syracuse fixes have complicated the steady lives of the boys from Rochester, but they face routine confusions. Recent example: a friend mistook Bill for Rob on Main Street, apologized for his error when Bill identified himself. Few days later he stopped Bill again and told him of his mistake, again sure he was Rob. Bill did not bother to explain. After 70 years it is an old story...