Word: freeporters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Adrian Iselin, 3rd, 20, socialite motorcycle enthusiast; when a motorcycle he was riding at night on a race track struck a parked track scraper; in Freeport...
Died. William Thomas Gardner, 90, Civil War veteran who, lacking newsprint, printed a wallpaper account of the fall of Vicksburg (now a collector's item); after a long illness; in Freeport...
...sulphur wells. This melts the brimstone, which is then pumped out. Two companies control substantially the entire U. S. sulphur production and the price for years has been $18 per ton- no more, no less. The companies are Texas Sulphur, which accounts for two-thirds of the production, and Freeport Texas, the principal deposits of which are at present not in Texas but in Louisiana. Last week Freeport Texas completed a four-year internal reorganization. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, sportsman son of the late Payne Whitney, was made Freeport's board chairman. Jock Whitney graduated from Yale...
Langbourne Meade Williams Jr., 31, vice president & treasurer of Freeport Texas Co. (sulphur) was elected president succeeding Eugene Levering Norton who stepped up to a less active chairmanship. Last month able President Williams marketed $2,500,000 of Freeport's preferred stock through his good friend (since Harvard Business School days), Partner Albert H. Gordon of Kidder, Peabody...
...From those occupations he went to Boston to be a messenger boy in the Stone & Webster Building for a while, then entered the legal department of the firm. He was a vice president when he resigned last week to go to Kidder, Peabody. He is also a director of Freeport Texas Co., New England Trust Co., Railway & Light Securities Co. Golfer, fisherman, gunner and rider-to-hounds, he was in Florida last week recovering from brain concussion suffered when he was thrown last October in the Norfolk Hunt (Medfield, Mass...