Word: fairburn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court's verdict: Captain Philip Fairburn, master of Sirdhana, was guilty of wrongful default in not finding out the position of the mine field. Second Officer Thomas Gerard Green was guilty of wrongful default in not transmitting to Captain Fairburn messages received about the mine field, whose location was not marked on Sirdhana's chart. Second Officer Green was censured, Captain Fairburn deprived of his master's certificate for one year (but permitted to act as mate meantime...
...Fairburn, Diamond Match...
Diamond Match Co. President W. A. Fairburn...
...return of the shares, legally obstructed their sale (TIME, June 18). Last week they agreed to the sale if the proceeds were impounded for further wrangling. At the upset price of $5,249,500 the block was auctioned off to the one & only bidder, Diamond Match. President William Armstrong Fairburn must have chuckled softly at clearing $7,750,000 without lifting a hand, at profiting roundly from Ivar Kreuger's blasted dreams...
Matches. Another big voice to boom against dumping last week was that of William Armstrong Fairburn, Diamond Match's president. Cried he to stockholders: "Foreign matches, generally inferior, not handled by your company [or any other U. S. match manufacturer], continue to be sold in this country at ridiculously low, uneconomic and unwarranted prices in violation of the spirit of both the U. S. anti-dumping and tariff laws. . . . Book matches, due to destructive competition, uneconomic merchandising and overproducing power, dropped to a record low level for the year. ... All match prices in the U. S. are absurdly...