Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fracas started when the Erie Railroad proudly announced that underwriters Morgan, Stanley & Co. would handle a $14,000,000 Erie bond issue. Up rose peppery, dollar-minded Cyrus Stephen Eaton, boss of Cleveland's Otis & Co. and a Midwestern underwriter, who believes that New York financiers get far too much of the underwriting business. He demanded that ICC stop the sale, open the bidding to all comers...
...suspected ever since the Mesabi was opened up a half century ago. But it was not till 1930 that a prospector and scout, Jules G. Cross, made a survey of the region, which led to the formation of the Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd. Backing the company is Cyrus Eaton, creator of Republic Steel, who is arranging a $7,500,000 bond issue...
...magic figure then-the circulation at which TIME might hope to make enough money to stay in business-and it looked very, very far away. In fact, it seemed so far away that every established publisher TIME'S young founders could get in to see (from Cyrus H.K. Curtis down) threw cold water on their "newsmagazine" idea and refused to put even a dollar into...
Last month Benj. Franklin was kicked off the cover of the Satevepost for the first time since old Cyrus H. K. Curtis bought it 45 years ago. If old Cyrus turned in his grave then, this week's cover must have brought his amazed ghost stalking into Independence Square. Saturday Evening started to follow Franklin toward limbo, leaving the word Post baldly staring from the cover in unfamiliar type. Neither inside nor out did the once fabulously successful weekly look like its old self...
...show was the hunch of short, stocky Al Rosen, a Hollywood agent who thought the public needed a good old bedroom farce, and dug through dozens of them till he found the one he liked. He hired Playwright Cyrus Wood (Sally, Irene and Mary, Street Singer) to doctor it up, finally found an angel. The show opened in Santa Barbara in February and so outraged that staid community that the city council met. Good Night Ladies thereupon scrammed to San Francisco for a week, clicked, stayed five. When it lit out for Chicago it had already earned back...