Word: ellsworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month many U. S. sport headliners were asked to donate their services for the Finnish Relief Fund. Among them were America's six top-notch professional tennists: Donald Budge, Ellsworth Vines, Fred Perry, Bruce Barnes, Berkeley Bell and greying, 47-year-old Bill Tilden, back in the U. S. after nearly three years abroad. In Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory they did their bit-in a four-hour, five-match show with...
...personal expenses of six players to Manhattan: Fred Perry from Los Angeles, $312.23; Ellsworth Vines from Miami, $213.20; Donald Budge from Hollywood, Fla., $195.73; Barnes and Tilden from Asheville, N. C. (a journey that costs ordinary travelers approximately $45 round trip with lower berth), respectively $284.50 and $400 flat; Berkeley Bell from his home in suburban Forest Hills (normally a 5? subway ride), $50. Total...
Fortnight ago young Robert Ellsworth Gross, president of Lockheed Aircraft Corp., published an unaudited preview of his 1939 annual report: sales, $35,303,444, up 244% from 1938; net earnings in excess of $3,140,000 ($4.05 a share), up 610%; unfilled orders over $40,000,000 (they jumped to $70,000,000 last week). Bob Gross's preview was incidentally a potent sales talk for an operation that took place last week. It was a type of operation that has threatened to become obsolete: a public offering of common stock to obtain new capital...