Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each relic nestled in a case of gold, each case was enclosed in a sturdy wooden box, and Tiffany & Co. of Manhattan was the firm which was chosen to envelop the button, hair, braid and ring in suitable magnificence. Last week Japanese were pleased & honored to receive these four gifts, be cause all are authentic mementoes of intrepid U. S. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858), who opened up Japan to Occidental influence...
Fred Harvey, polo player, War aviator, young Harvard graduate, largely responsible for the building of an airport in Kansas City. He is son of Ford F. Harvey, who is president of the firm that runs the Santa Fe dining cars and 24 hotels, 41 restaurants, 54 lunchrooms along the Santa Fe route. The original Fred Harvey, now dead, father of Ford F., began business in 1876 in a shed of a depot at Topeka, Kan. His succulent chicken and his eye-easy waitresses quickly made him the Cesar Ritz of the Southwest...
Died. James F. D. Lanier, 69, retired, member of the firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co, of New York (one of the oldest private banking houses in the U. S.); in Manhattan, following an operation...
...They dropped without warning 5 to 40 points. American Telephone & Telegraph stock, one of the few important ones listed, not only did not wobble, but even rose during the week. But then directors had decreed $185,000,000 of new stock at par to shareholders. General Motors held unusually firm, considering that it has been a "favorite." Chrysler and Studebaker stocks tended to rise. Hudson Motors also made a good record, and Mack Trucks, Hupmobile, Nash, Packard...
Curtiss, since its reorganization in 1923 under the leadership of Clement Melville Keys, has become a miniature General Motors of the air-makers of the complete plane (fuselage, engine propeller, accessories). Founder Glenn Curtiss, no longer with the firm, is in the real estate business in Florida. Last week, Curtiss stock reached a new high of $192.75 and closed at $145. On the day-before-Lindbergh, it was easily obtainable...