Word: checkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parmelee Transportation and Checker Cab Manufacturing, September...
Employing over 40 men, all students at the University, the concessions will include eight stands located at convenient points under the Stadium. Each stand has a captain, under whom there are from three to five assistants. At the store house in the old cage, there will be a checker and his assistant, and an to take care of the provisions. Three runners will be employed to keep the stands supplied, as the volume of business is so large that enough provisions to last for a whole afternoon cannot be kept on hand...
Start in life: car-checker in the Michigan Central R. R. yards at Detroit...
Career: From his father's small soap factory at Chatham he, aged 18, migrated to Detroit, became car-checker, then bill-clerk for the M. C. R. R. A. Y. Malcomsen, coaldealer, made him his bookkeeper at $75 a month. He married Margaret A. Manning of Detroit in 1898, who bore him one son, three daughters...
...largest dealers in U. S. pre-War bonds and insular and territory obligations. Likewise it became identified with many enterprises, all of which have been recognized in the Street as good small concerns. In the past, the firm has been identified with Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., Checker Cab Mfg. Corp., Curtis Publishing Co. and Parmelee Transportation Co. Generally considered to have been the Sisto stumbling block is Cosden Oil Co. which has suffered continued liquidation for many months. Likewise, Sisto Financial Corp., offered at $53 a share last year, and believed to be 40%-owned by Mr. Sisto, has dropped...