Word: colossi
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...more bank stock than any man in the history of the world-$475,000,000 worth in 2,235 institutions. Last week he began to use his new power by dictating who should be board chairman of the biggest bank in the Midwest (see p. 43). But colossi often have foot-trouble and Jesse Jones's 6 ft. 3 in. is no exception. On the days when he works ten or twelve hours-a habit his childless wife, whom he married when he was 46, has not been able to break him of-his feet bother him. An earthy...
...packed all the seats of the Music Hall twice daily, the margin of profit, after taking out Roxy's $100,000 weekly overhead, would have been extremely small. Showmen recalled the old Hippodrome, last seat of spectacles. There one used to be able to witness such theatrical colossi as herds of performing elephants, tanks full of mermaidens, the siege of Port Arthur, the capture of Veracruz. Public apathy landed the spectacular old Hippodrome on the rocks in 1929. As holder of one of the largest individual stakes in the U. S. entertainment business, Mr. Rockefeller must have known about...
...high. Of the 1,100 operating in 1918, only 164 are active now. Only 24 of these have a capitalization of over $1,000,000. Most of them have been losing money for a decade and would need several very profitable years before they could brew dividends for shareholders. Colossi in the ruined industry are Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and Pabst Corp. Anheuser-Busch has built up profitable sidelines in yeast, ice-cream, ginger ale, truck bodies, coal. If beer is legalized the company can in two hours start turning out about half of its pre-Prohibition yearly output...
...works hard enough he will eventually reach the top--either in material or non-material gain. Consequently it is somewhat surprising to learn that the creator of "Nick Carter", having penned forty million words in his lifetime, died practically penniless,--a suicide. America, the builder of physical colossi, might have been expected to reward such industry, if only on the basis of bulk alone; and certainly "Nick" achieved a popularity in his day. But apparently literature and the material world are still things apart...
What strides the great Universi8ty has taken ! During all my early years our old Harvard Alma Mater sat still and lifeless as the colossi in the Egyptian desert. Then all at once, like the commander's statue in Don Giovanni, she moved from her pedestal. The fall of that "story foot" has effected a miracle like the harp that Orphens played, like the teeth which Cadmus sowed. The plain where the moose and the bear were wandering while Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, where a few plain dormitories and other needed buildings were scattered about in my school-boy days, groans...