Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Largest scootermaker is Moto-Skoot Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, which sold 4,500 two-and three-wheelers last year, expects to sell 10,000 in 1939. Head of Moto-Skoot is 27-year-old Norman A. Siegal, who used to race Fronty-Fords on the dirt track circuit, decided three years ago that there was more money to be made in slower transportation. Racer Siegal sold his share in a Chicago Loop garage for $1,090 in 1936, hired three workmen, and in a corner of a West Side factory began making Moto-Skoots. By the end of the year...
...Patton Murphy, a 66-year-old bachelor. A onetime railroad brakeman and fireman who became rich by inventing and manufacturing corrugated steel freight-car ends, Mr. Murphy heads three corporations (including Standard Railway Equipment Co.), owns the fabulous estate of the late William V. Kelley in Lake Bluff near Chicago, a cattle ranch in California, and a $1,000,000 square-rigged yacht. He is a good friend of James Roosevelt. Mr. Murphy is not so well known as his estate or his yacht, and the university had to look up the brief notice...
Spanning half the continent, the Glee Club will travel during the coming vacation to five of the nation's most celebrated musical centres New York City, Syracuse, Cleveland, Chicago, and Rochester...
...route for New York Saturday, the Club will perform first at the Harvard Club in that city. After stops in Syracuse and Cleveland, the group will sing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in two concerts. As a special feature, there will be a broadcast at Rochester, thus bringing to a close nine days crammed with activity...
According to Commissioner Evans, who hails from Chicago, Odell & friends first acquired enough stock interest in Pacific States to have access to its list of investment certificate holders. Next they set up a company called State Guaranty Corp., peddled its preferred stock to Pacific States' certificate holders. Odell acted as fiscal agent, taking a 20% commission on these sales, thus getting enough money to purchase control of State Guaranty's common stock. And with the money it raised State Guaranty bought up all the capital stock of Pacific States...