Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line was so prosperous that it declared 6% dividends every month for ten months. Ruinous rate wars broke out among competing companies, however, and the fare to Boston was once as low as $1, to Providence 50?. When Financiers Jay Gould and Jim Fisk got their powerful hands on the line, competition turned from rates to magnificence. Staircases became grander, chandeliers larger and more glittering, furnishings and decorations more sumptuous. In 1883 appeared their first iron-hull vessel, the Pilgrim, which carried 675 passengers. It was taken for granted that anyone would sleep better in a Fall River berth than...
...which should satisfy most cinemaddicts, surprise almost none. Good shot: a carnival strong man tossing Red Scanlon into a creek. The Toast of New York (RKO) exhibits Edward Arnold, previously seen as Diamond Jim Brady, General John Sutter and an Oregon lumber tycoon named Bernard Glasgow, as swashbuckling Jim Fisk, whose financial freebooting nearly disrupted Wall Street in the decade after the Civil War. Abetted by his young cronies, Nick Boyd (Gary Grant) and Luke (Jack Oakie), Fisk amiably horn-swoggles pious little Dan Drew (Donald Meek) out of control of the Erie Railroad, then makes a fortune by selling...
...Fisk University...
...Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion. When Louisville, to placate its 30,000 Negroes who were blocking a $1,000,000 bond issue for its Municipal University, opened a Municipal College for Negroes in 1931, Rufus Clement became its first dean. No high-powered intellectual like Fisk's James Weldon Johnson. Dr. Clement is esteemed among his colleagues for executive ability and tact. He plays an excellent game of tennis and. with his wife Pearl as a partner, an even better game of bridge...
Rubber's Big Four annually make 91% of all the tires for U. S. automobiles. William Francis O'Neil's General Tire & Rubber Co. makes another 5%, with Lee, Dayton, Fisk, Seiberling, Mansfield and Pharis splitting the remainder. Total number of tires sold in 1936 was 58,000,000, compared with a high of 72,000,000 in 1928. Tires now last at least 20,000 mi. instead of the 8,000 mi. they were good for 15 years ago, but more cars and more mileage per car per year have complemented technological improvements. Current competition...