Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Would Foster Critical Spirit
...deep ravine of Wall Street, it is an old story of how Claude H. Foster founded the Gabriel Manufacturing Co. on the modest sum of $1,500. Wall Street was equally cognizant that that Company earned $1,086,195 last year, representing an interest of 72,413% on the original investment; that Mr. Foster was the sole owner of this thriving concern, which manufactured three-quarters of the world's automobile snubbers and shock-absorbing devices. But even Wall Street, which hears many strange things without a metaphorical flicker of its eyes, opened them wide in astonishment last week...
...reported that Mr. Foster had sold his Company to the Cleveland and Manhattan banking and brokerage firm of Otis & Co., founded by Charles A. ("Tot") Otis, also editor of Finance and Industry. That was not surprising. But that he should have sold for $3,000,000 less than was offered was. Mr. Foster, rich and content, was actuated solely by the desire to have the Company's stock sold to his employes and the public at a reasonable price...
...about to be loosed into the water.* Lest it should race across the estuary and smash into Philadelphia, a gigantic cable was stretched across the water off the New Jersey shore. Twenty airplanes careened lazily from side to side, high in air above the hulk, as if welcoming a foster-mother...
...election of the following officials : Charles H. Grandgent, President; Gano Dunn, Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Henry Gallup Paine, Treasurer; Godfrey Dewey, Secretary; Irving T. Fisher, William T. Foster, David Starr Jordan, Alexander H. MacKay, Brander Matthews, William F. MacLean, Homer H. Seerley, Frank W. Taussig, Vice Presidents...