Word: gavin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mailbag was eagerly emptied by partners and officers of the principal underwriting houses in New York and Chicago last week. Each firm was expecting a letter from Frank J. Gavin, president of the Great Northern Railway. Most of Railroader Gavin's letters are notably brief, but this one was to be a little longer than usual. It was an invitation for competitive bids on $100 million 3½% refunding bonds of the Great Northern-the largest issue of topflight railroad bonds to come to market since 1900. The sale must be completed...
...conservative Frank Gavin will get prompt answers to his invitations. And if the sale goes through according to plan, Great Northern's annual interest charges will be a modest $10.5 million a year, against $12.5 million of last year and the worrisome $19.5 million...
...Brigadier General James M. Gavin, 36, who entered West Point from the ranks of the Regular Army, is now in combat with an infantry division overseas...
Gillham made friends with Angus Gavin, a Hudson's Bay Co. trader, and whipped up in Gavin a hot excitement for the search. Gavin had himself transferred to the Perry River post. Some Canadian sportsmen and bird-lovers proselytized Gavin's boss, who authorized and financed an expedition. Gavin and a friend set out with a 16-ft. sled carrying supplies and an 18-ft. canoe. They sledged five miles up the river, then reached open water and took to the canoe. Fifteen miles farther up they came to an unnamed, uncharted lake, dotted with small islands...