Word: defunction
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...Levy did his work on Fisk for Richard H. Swartwout, chairman of the new board, who once described himself as a "selector of presidents." During his investment banking days he helped reorganize many a defunct or tottering enterprise: Union Bag & Paper Corp., American-La France Fire Engine Co., Norfolk Southern Railroad, Intertype Corp., Dictaphone Corp., Ansco Photo-products, Inc. Twice he and his friends had working control of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, sold out both times at a profit. Backer Swartwout said Fisk's plans for a new selling campaign would not be ready for several months...
Carrying the idea of preserving relics of old New York one step further, the museum's press agent is none other than touslehaired Don Carlos Seitz, best known business manager of the defunct New York World...
...sweeping began several weeks ago in cities scattered throughout the U. S., was made conspicuous last fortnight by arrests of newsdealers in Washington, D. C. As its publishers had feared would happen, Ballyhoo was included in the clean-up of its much dirtier imitators, Hooey, Slapstick and the defunct Tickle-Me-Too. In every city where the cases were finally disposed of-Memphis, Knoxville, Atlanta, Richmond, Elizabeth and Newark, N. J.; Spokane, Bellingham and Yakima, Wash.-Ballyhoo was permitted to resume sale. In Manhattan newsdealers were warned by the license commissioner not to sell Brevities, Paris Models and Artists...
Lewis A. Yancey and Roger Quincey Williams; over their participation in the affairs of defunct Airvia Transportation...
...followed it in 1923 with Tulips & Chimneys, a book of poems which almost anyone could understand. Then began his soul-searching struggles with punctuation and capital letters, resulting in such volumes as XLI Poems, Is 5, & and the recently published W (Viva). He became a regular contributor to the defunct, arty Dial, in 1925 won the $2,000 Dial award for his poetry published in that magazine...