Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...band of bubblegum blowers from Schenectady, N.Y., who outlasted Colton, Calif, in the finals 7-5. Star of the game: Billy Masucci, twelve-year-old Schenectady pitcher, who smashed a two-run homer in the first inning, maintained his poise on the mound after beaning Colton's Harley Chapman (whose hand he shook in apology-see cut), struck out nine and allowed only four hits...
...order business, second biggest merchandising enterprise in the country, was a big job for any man . But Wolfson is used to big jobs. In 22 years he has parlayed a $5,000 investment into a $200 million industrial empire. Since 1949, he has bought control of the big Merritt-Chapman & Scott construction company, the Washington, D.C. street-transportation system, the New York Shipbuilding Corp., the 200-year-old paintmaking Devoe & Raynolds Co.. and a hatful of smaller concerns...
...gold for Wolfson. He and a group of friends bought control of Washington's Capital Transit for $20 a share, have since paid themselves about $30 a share in dividends, much of it from an accumulated surplus. By going after contracts aggressively, Wolfson boosted Merritt-Chapman's gross from $33 million in 1948 to $70 million in 1953. Dividends have gone up even faster, from an average of 51? a share in the four years before Wolfson took over to an average of $1.73 in the four years since. Two stock dividends of 40% and 25% were declared...
...after the death of Virgil Chapman, the man who defeated him in 1948, Cooper got an opportunity for another try at the Senate-again for a short two-year term. The Republican National Committee preferred to concentrate on states where the party seemed to have a better chance...
...JOHN CHAPMAN New York City...