Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JUBILEE JIM: THE LIFE OF COLONEL JAMES FISK JR.-Robert H. Fuller-Macmillan...
...talking about himself and he felt he had a right to talk that way about other business leaders, because he was offering $25,000 for the best plan neatly typewritten in 2,000 words and submitted before December 1 to the prize committee on the 18th Amendment, room 2401 Fisk Building, New York City, a plan, "To make the 18th Amendment effective...
...that his chief business intimates died penniless, or insane, or by violence. Gould had the Midas-touch. He transmuted the most unlikely stuff into gold. But in the transmuting he took from it all life and beauty, left it deflowered and pitiful. Said pleasure-loving Jim Fisk: "Gould lets everyone carry out his own corpse." Said pious, ruthless Daniel Drew: "His touch is as death...
...satisfactory. But income figures were disheartening. Net income of the "biggest" Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. dropped from $6,364,005 (Jan.-June, 1927) to $3,074,200 (Jan-June, 1928). For B.F. Goodrich Co., a profit of $5,813,501 turned into a deficit of $1,574,889. Fisk Rubber Co.'s huge deficit...
...Fisk (from Chicopee Falls, Mass.) and Hood (from Watertown, Mass.) have impressed tire-users with their intimate advertising ? Fisk with its fetching "time- to-re-tire" child, Hood with its blue uniformed traffic arrester. Kelly-Springfield has definitely associated its tires with the most expensive makes of motor cars; deliberately it has made itself the "class" supplier. Miller has made its tire reputation equal its early reputation for druggist sundries. Less important than these are Ajax and Manhattan...