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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wall Street banking house of Dillon, Read & Co., Fisk directors listened to a proposition from big, potent U. S. Rubber Co., nodded their heads in approval. U. S. Rubber offered to buy Fisk outright for $6,827,330 cash and 109,981 shares of U. S. Rubber Common, holders of Fisk's 34,738 preferred shares to get $110 a share cash (call price), holders of its 439,923 common shares $6.75 a share cash plus 1 share of U. S. Rubber common (last week priced about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Fisk to U. S. | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...gridiron squad has already hung up its moleskins for good, and its last act will be to elect the 1940 leader. This afternoon at 3 o'clock 22 lettermen meet in Dillon Field House and cast their ballots to find a successor to ill-fated Torbie Macdonald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERMEN ASSEMBLE TO PICK NEW CAPTAIN | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

Young Sebastian Bannon, who likes the sea better than Harvard Law School, ships aboard the Gloucester halibut-trawler Susan Dillon for the winter voyage, greenest of a crew of unanimous goldenhearts. Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy, brilliant account. In the best pages of the book Sebastian, lost at sea, rows his dead dory-mate 100 miles to land, his hands frozen to the oars. He and his rescuer, a young woman, are marooned on (and rescued from) a somewhat Melvilleian iceberg which mystically wanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand Banks Romance | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Despite the knowledge that an already weak team will be without the services of its captain, Torbie Macdonald, and two other regulars, Moses Hallett and Joe Koufman, 600 undergraduates yesterday reechoed their faith in the Harvard Varsity at a mass rally in front of the Dillon Field House...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Enthusiastic Rally Cheers as Underdog Varsity Eleven Embarks for Princeton | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

Lighted by flares, the rally will be held out of doors this year, unless rain forces the crowd into the Briggs Cage. On the steps of Dillon Field House will be seated the squad, coaches, and the speakers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Rooters to Hold Football Rally This P.M. | 11/2/1939 | See Source »

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