Word: gold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford last week bought for a reputed price of $10,000 the 200-acre Vaucluse gold mine in Orange County, Va., never profitably worked since pre-Civil War days...
...Bank, N. J., one day last week. One broke a rudder. One turned a flipflop. One's motor languished. Sole survivor was the Imp, owned and driven by Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (Hayden Stone & Co., director of 44 corporations, 20 aviation companies), which roared on lustily to win the gold cup, prime trophy of U. S. speedboating. Imp won all three heats, in the first attained a speed of 51.9 m.p.h., fastest gold cup time since restrictions on engine-power and hull-size went into effect eight years...
Runabouts, hydroplanes, outboards all had their events at Red Bank. In a final grand free-for-all for a special trophy molded from a solid gold brick, presented by Barren Collier, two drivers of skittish little outboards, encouraged by the result of the gold cup race, entered their craft on the slim hope that the hydroplanes would all tip over, fall apart or blow...
Brother George, after he left St. Michael's College in Toronto, worked for Swift & Co. in Chicago, then for Quaker Oats. After a few years he set up as a broker (Morrow & Co.) in the New York Produce and Sugar Exchanges. He took a hand in Gold Dust Corp. of which he is now chairman. He was invited to reorganize American Cotton Oil Co. and did so with such effect that in about five years the value of the company's stock was multi plied 15 times. That was only the begin ning of a career of reorganizations and purchases...
Together the Brothers Morrow have bought the 2-in-1 Polish Co. in Canada (now 2-in-1 Shinola Bixby Corp., subsidiary of Gold Dust), Christie Brown Co. ( Canadian cracker makers), Consolidated Bakeries (also Canadian), American Linseed Co.. Standard Milling Co. They had to fight for control of the last two, but as Elder Brother George remarked last week: "We are like Tunney. We have never been beaten...