Word: brin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Co. had located (or invented) an airplane mechanic named Curtiss Wright, had christened their company after him. Assets, other than the name, were small. Stock-sale profits, however, should have been considerable. According to the Attorney-General's office, stock was optioned to Broker Cyrus Brin for 66^ a share, reoptioned to Broker H. D. Strahman at $1.25 a share, sold to the public at the $25,130 figure. The company was ordered to change its name and the broking firm of Strahman, Walsh & Brin, Manhattan, was enjoined from further sale of its stock...
...last week the cadets of Urban Military Academy (Hollywood), rose as usual from dinner, began to march out. Jackie Coogan, 12, cinema boy, now a cadet, seized a pepper pot, threw pepper at one Brin of Bjorkman. For this, he was demoted from rank of corporal to private...