Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people who had come to bid were sitting around a long U-shaped table below the auctioneer's pulpit; behind them was a crowd of 300 spectators. The most important prospective bidders were four: B. D. Maggs, representing Maggs Brothers of London; W. Roberts, London bibliophile, representing Gabriel Wells, Manhattan book dealer; E. H. Bring, president of Quaritch's, London dealers in rarities, reputed to be representing the British Museum; and a squat man with a pince nez, Dr. Abraham Wolf Rosenbach, one of the members of the famed Rosenbach Co., Philadelphia dealers in rare books...
...team representing the University of Porto Rico will be composed of Vicente Roure, Jr., W A J Colorado, and Gabriel Guerra. Roure is a senior in the department of Education of his university, and at the same time is engaged in the instruction of health education and tropical hygiene. Colorado, a first year student, has won two awards of the Porto Rican Atheneum for excellence in poetry. Guerra is in his second year, and is closely connected with the Porto Rican Alliance, a political party in Porto Rico...
Claude H. Foster of Cleveland, inventory promoter, manufacturer, called his new automobile horn in 1904 after the name of that golden trumpet by which the archangel will at some unknown date announce the dissolution of all things-Gabriel's horn. Gabriel Manufacturing Co. prospered, expanded, invented a snubber to tame the jouncings of springs on automobiles. Gabriel snubbers rivalled Gabriel's horn in fame. Since 1925 when Gabriel Manufacturing was listed on the New York Stock Exchange "Snubber" has been cried in stock brokers' customers' rooms, when the ticker recorded a transaction in Gabriel stock...
Last week, Gabriel directors shocked Gabriel stockholders by discontinuing the regular 87½% quarterly dividend. Six months ago, an alleged but obvious pool had taken "Snubber" stock in hand, had run it up from $40 to $60. Then it fell from $60 to $18, sometimes at a rate of $4 a day. A printed rumor had it that President George H. Rawls of Gabriel, had lost the shock absorber business of the General Motors Corp. President Rawls explained to stockholders that last year was one of the most successful periods in the company's history, but important research...
...Gabriel Snubbers (which snub motor cars' jerks)-$960,330. Previous year, $1,033,630. President George H. Rails reminded stockholders that automobile production had fallen off 22% in 1927, Gabriel's earnings only...