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Word: ebbott (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take a slide rule to figure out what Murchison-Richardson were doing. By buying the big block of stock, they freed it from a voting trusteeship in the Chase National Bank, where it was placed on orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Chase National, whose President Percy J. Ebbott had joined other Central directors in turning down Young's demand for the chairmanship of the board, might well have voted the stock against Young. Now, with his own holdings and those of friends, Young could count on 17% of the 6,447,410 Central shares outstanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Wheel-Deal in the Central | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

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