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...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...
Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, famed for Negro philanthropies, recently gave $25,000 to Fisk University...