Word: cullinan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open field near Hartford, Conn., burst into flames. Within half an hour, the tent was gone and 169 people, two-thirds of them children, were dead or fatally injured. Last week, ten years to the day after the fire, Bridgeport's Superior Court Judge John T. Cullinan ordered the circus to pay $100,000 in legal fees to Julius B. Schatz. Hartford attorney who had served as legal counsel during a decade of receivership. When the fee is paid, the litigation that followed the greatest tragedy in circus history will be closed...
While rebuilding Barber, Rieber kept his eye on American Republics, founded by the late J. S. Cullinan, one of Rieber's old Texaco bosses. In 1946, after the stock market slump had knocked American Republics shares down to $11.50, Rieber began spending some of Barber's idle cash picking them up. By 1952 he had acquired 33⅓% of the stock for an average price of $25. By so doing, he made American Republics a bigger tail than the Barber dog. Last year the company grossed $22.2 million, netted a thumping $5,200,000 after taxes. Last week...
...GERALD CULLINAN Dallas...
...biggest: the 3,106-carat Cullinan...
MCAFEE W. CULLINAN...