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...Hearst's editors took care to point out that the Hearst modification contest had attracted more than three times the number of entries which were submitted last autumn in William Crapo Durant's enforcement contest for the same size prize...
...most bullish of the bulls is William Crapo Durant, motor and market man with reputed large holdings in Chrysler, General Motors, International Combustion, Montgomery Ward, U. S. Cast Iron Pipe, Warner Bros., and many a speculative favorite. Inasmuch as the first five of the half dozen listed closed last week at only a few points above their lows for the year, Mr. Durant was widely rumored as having been pressed for margin and as liquidating much of his holdings. There was a suspicion, indeed, that the Durant shirt, if not lost, had at least been temporarily mislaid. It was also...
...Broadway and branches throughout the Middle West. And when, last week, "Ohio Sam" an nounced the formation of Ungerleider Financial Corp., a general investment trust, the potent names of William Fox, head of Fox Films, David Bernstein, treasurer of Loew's, Inc. (Fox subsidiary), William Crapo Durant, motor-and market-man, and Louis S. Posner, of Jonas & Neuburger, attorneys,* were among those associated in the enterprise...
...Richfield Oil's President James A. Talbot, Clifford Durant, son of Motor-Financier William Crapo Durant, Norman Church, Joseph Schenck, the Agua Caliente Hotel in Mexico just south of the California boundary, Shell Petroleum, each have similar de luxe Fokkers. Fokker is building five $100,000, 32-passenger, four-motor transports for the Universal Air Lines system. Those will be the largest, most expensive standard ships ever built in the U. S. The Keystone Patrician, too huge to fit into Detroit's Convention Hall, after making a 25,000-mile circuit of the country without a difficulty, costs...
This time Buick went to William Crapo Durant, then head of Durant-Dort Carriage Co. Now he had found someone who thought of financing in terms of good round figures. Under Durant direction, Buick stock salesmen went from door to door, sold stock to farmers, schoolteachers, clerks, widows, to any who would buy. And for once, at least, hardly any promise could have been made too glowing for the future performance, hardly any prospectus could have been phrased in too superlative terms. Able, persuasive, Durant raised for Buick more than $1,000,000. Now (1906) there was a good time...