Word: durants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lineups: Freshmen--3b, Chase; 2b, Huntington; cf, Moffle; rf, Kobusch; c, Crosby; lf, Glimp; 1b, Lionette; ss, Goldsmith; p, Hansen. Jayvees--2b, Dumas; cf, Ellis; 1b, Davis; 3b, Durant; ss, Adler; rf, Ragle; lf, MacNutt; c, Strout; p, Clay, Turner...
Spring's coming brought an announcement last week from Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University, that repairs on the old roof will start as soon as other commitments allow. Kenneth J. Conant '15, professor of Architecture, is in charge of redecoration plans...
...panic of 1910 Durant lost control of G.M. Unfazed, he started manufacturing a car called the Chevrolet. Quietly he bought back 40% of G.M.'s stock (with the help of the Du Ponts) and walked into a G.M. board meeting with his pockets bulging with stock certificates. Imperiously he announced: "Gentlemen, I control this company." As Walter P. Chrysler later said: "It was like Napoleon's return from Elba...
...post-World War I slump, G.M. stock slipped from $400 to $12. Durant spent an estimated $90,000,000 trying to bolster it before he finally lost control of G.M. for good. He founded Durant Motors, aiming to start a new G.M. But this time it was no go. He piled up another fortune by playing the stockmarket, but the 1929 crash virtually wiped him out. Later, he went into bankruptcy, listing $250 (the clothes on his back) as his only assets...
...turned up in Asbury Park, N.J. as a lunchroom and supermarket owner. He plugged a dandruff cure on the side, operated a bowling alley in Flint. He still talked grandly of making a pile. But it was too late. Last week, in his eight-room apartment in Manhattan, Billy Durant, 85, died. Of the millions he had been "loaned" he left nothing...