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...Brother Mantis James is 54. Less than 20 years ago they were merely two notably successful Cleveland realtors?farm boys who had gone to the city, worked hard, saved their money and by shrewd investment piled up about $500,000 between them. Then they got into railroads, purchasing the decrepit Nickel Plate. By 1929, not long before they took their first & only vacation, they estimated their mutual fortune at $100,000,000. From their adjoining offices on the 36th floor of their Terminal Tower building they directed coal mines, trucking companies, street car lines, $150,000,000 worth of real...
...entire list of publications owned by Odhams has grown too numerous to warrant discussion in Chairman Elias' annual speech, but the shareholders knew better than to worry. Every decrepit sheetlet that Elias has picked up, he has turned into a moneymaker. The Herald, when Elias found it, was on its last legs as a Laborite party organ because the millionaire publishers Beaverbrook & Rothermere knew better than the Herald's editors what the British workingman wanted to read. Elias fixed that, had its sales up to 1,000,000 in a fortnight. He repeated the feat last year with...
...mother had swum the English Channel at 19, had now relapsed into a mountainous and silent character. Velvet was not much to look at but she had her mother's spirit. And Velvet worshiped horses. All she had to ride was Miss Ada, the family's unpleasantly decrepit old pony. When a neighboring farmer's piebald gelding was raffled off because he kept jumping fences and running away, Velvet won him and acquired the start of her stable. And when the old gentleman committed suicide, leaving all his horses to her because she was the last person...
...disappointed Freshman to adopt. Many students now accepted for the Houses will not occupy their appointed places next fall. The significant group of "dropped" Freshmen; the large numbers who will not return for scholastic, financial, or personal reasons; the annual Sophomore exodus to the pseudo-swank of the now decrepit Gold Coast; all of these are good insurance that the bars will be raised to many before September arrives...
...RFChairman Jesse Jones announced a final plan for his pet railroad project, partitioning of Minneapolis & St. Louis (mileage: 1,627) which has been in receivership for twelve years (TIME, Oct. 29). About 500 mi. of this decrepit carrier will be junked, the rest parceled out among eight adjacent systems. Though details were still secret, Illinois Central will apparently be the chief gainer, acquiring a direct entrance over its own rails into Minneapolis. Mr. Jones will provide the big carriers with a total of $7,200,000 to buy the individual pieces...