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Aids to the general clack of reminiscence were three passengers who had crossed on the Mauretania's, maiden voyage in 1907: Mr. & Mrs. Robert Middlemass, of Glasgow, Little Businessman Cyrus Morfey, of Herefordshire. All three said they liked the new ship fine...
...cutting the deficit down to $600,000 in 1933 but next year the notorious airmail cancellations dealt American Airways a $4,500,000 wallop and it had to reorganize, emerging in its present form as American Airlines, Inc. The same year American got its present president, homespun, slangy Cyrus Rowlett ("C. R.") Smith of Texas...
...clients by acting as line coach for the Georgia Tech football team under famed John William Heisman. In 1917 he went to Pittsburgh to form a legal department for the Mellon-controlled Koppers Co. (coal, coke, gas, tar), rose to be a vice president and director. Through his friend Cyrus Eaton of Republic Steel Corp., he became a Republic director. When in 1932 a change in Koppers management sent John Brookes back to Washington to practice corporation law, he remained a trusted adviser of Republic's present boss, Tom Girdler. In Washington (where he was born in 1888) John...
...shrewd old "F. A.," with Cleveland Banker Cyrus Eaton and Oil Tycoon Edgar B. Davis, formed Ohio Goodyear Securities Co., a personal holding company, one of whose assets was a big block of Goodyear Tire & Rubber common. Cyrus Eaton presently took this Goodyear stock and put it in a new corporation known as Goodyear Shares, Inc., in which F. A. had an equity. In 1930, spotting trouble ahead for Goodyear, he swapped this equity for 64,554 shares of U. S. Rubber Co. common. Bulk of this latter stock, which was charged off to him at $18 a share, next...
...late Cyrus H. K. Curtis had a golden touch with magazines (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman), but his newspaper ventures turned to lead. He bought and killed off three famed Philadelphia newspapers to keep his morning and evening Public Ledger alive, also acquired the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Inquirer. Before he died in 1933 he turned over management of them to his stepson-in-law, John Charles Martin, who got his business start selling coat hangers to villagers along the Ohio River...