Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then turned northwest. Toward nightfall, the typhoon changed its direction, aimed for Shanghai. Blowing with cyclonic force, it piled up mountainous seas at the mouths of the Yangtze and Whangpoo Rivers, sent a four-foot torrent flowing through the heart of Shanghai. The waters islanded the National City and Chase National Banks and most of the big downtown hotels. Having done several millions of dollars worth of damage, the 17th typhoon wandered northward after midnight...
...Hohokus, N. J., when two strangers drove into his filling station and proffered two half-dollars for gasoline, Ben Weinstein cried, "Phony." gave chase in his automobile, forced the strangers to wreck their car against a bridge. In the wrecked car police found 500 counterfeit half dollars...
...easy for Lou Manning to negotiate the deal for his boss. Sole voting power in the $15,000,000 concern rests with 185,500 founders' shares. And a majority was available in two blocks- one owned by the old partners of Blair & Co. (Bancamerica-Blair), one by Chase National Bank which salvaged the shares from the wreck of Pynchon & Co. For the two blocks Cord Corp. paid about $2,000,000. Though New York Shipbuilding founders' shares soared from $2 to $20 a share this year, Lou Manning denied any open market operations. Chairman William Mowat Flook stepped...
...Mitchell, Jane Hawkes, Augusta Flagg, Fonchen Usher, William W. Lord, Jane Gilman, Helena Niescherg, Winston J. Rowe, William Dennis, Miss H. Randal, Erik Lundberg, Franklin C. Forbes, L. A. Vigneras, G. Fuler, Willys Spencer, Peggy Moss Priscilla Wedger, Edwin Parkin, Donald Collins, Allice Parker. P. M. Mason, Wil-G. Chase, Henrietta Young...
...Mayor of Milwaukee, the Mayor of Houston, the Mayor of Louisville, a vice president of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, a professor from Princeton, a professor from Michigan, a professor from Northwestern, the Director of Finance of Dayton, the State Controller of New York, the City Auditor of New Smyrna, Fla.-such men. 75 of them, last week trooped down Chicago's sweltering Midway to Judson Court at the University of Chicago. There they held a Conference on Municipal Finance, to work out reconstruction measures for bankrupt U. S. cities...