Word: frazer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigation, the Securities & Exchange Commission shelved its attempt to revoke the securities trading license of Cyrus Eaton's Otis & Co. SEC had little choice. It had hoped to prove that Otis & Co. had fraudulently wriggled out of a deal to underwrite a $10 million issue of Kaiser-Frazer stock. But the only way it could do so.was by proving that Otis & Co. had put Lawyer James Masterson up to filing the suit against K-F which had enabled Otis to call off the deal. Last month, a U.S. district court ruled that Eaton's lawyers did not have...
...Waste Land was not mere poetic journalism. Eliot found the world in bits & pieces, reported it in snips & snatches of allusions to the Grail legend, to Frazer's Golden Bough, to Hindu philosophy. At the end, he says: "These fragments I have shored against my ruins." The shoring was not shoveling; it was the orderly construction of a mosaic. His purpose was not merely to describe disorder and frustration, but to contrast it with the possibility of a return to order and fulfillment...
Humming. The automobile industry was heartier than ever. Chrysler Corp. reported a record nine-month net of $59,887,601 (up 25%). Packard's net for the same period was $9,488,336 (v. a $131,478 loss in the 1947 period). Kaiser-Frazer turned in $8,253,451 after deducting $5,900,000 in taxes (v. $6,089,000 in the 1947 period, when no taxes were paid. K-F's earnings were tax-free because of a carry-back). But K-F's third-quarter net of $2,058,000 was almost 74% below...
...business in two years, stirred up a cake to celebrate. When the bakers got it just right, it stood eight feet high, carried 1,500 roses, weighed just over a long ton. Galyan beamed, cut it up into 17,000 pieces for his customers, threw in a $2,800 Frazer as a door prize...
Reporter, Boston Record-American; assistant television producer, World Video; seasonal park ranger, Shenandoah National Park; editorial department. American Telephone and Telegraph; editorial department, Collier's; translator, export, division of Kaiser-Frazer; and a position in the South American branch of the First National Bank of Boston...