Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tickets for the 1948 spring Jubilee are now being sold by the Jubilee Committee once more, Arthur C. McGill '48, chairman of the Committee, announced last night. With his induction into the United States Naval Reserve due tomorrow, Frederick F. Lamont '48, former holder of the tickets, decided that continued speculation might embarrass his financial resources, and therefore turned them over this week...
...directors of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. ("Katy") feared that there would be wigs on the green at the annual stockholders' meeting in St. Louis last week. Edward N. Claughton, holder of the largest single block of Katy stock (11%), had loudly voiced his dissatisfaction with the way the Katy president, natty, gregarious Matthew S. Sloan, was treating his stockholders...
Nieman Fellowships are awarded annually, usually 12 in number, to journalists of three years' experience. A Fellowship entitles the holder to a college year of study in a program of his own choosing. Eighty-seven newspapermen have gained the distinction since the Fellowship was established in 1938 by the bequest of Agnes Wahl Nieman...
Amid the potato fields of Long Island, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Co. last week sprouted the best production record of the war. In March, Grumman turned out 658 Navy fighting planes, most ever turned out in one month by a single U.S. plane plant. Previous record holder: North American Aviation Inc., with 571 Mustang fighters in January...
...September, Rio's board of directors had assumed full administrative control, and FSA had become only a lien holder. Then, in January 1945, Manager Tayloe walked proudly into the FSA office in Dallas with a check for $933,000. The entire federal mortgage had been paid off in three years, 47 years before it was due; the tenants were happy and reasonably prosperous, and the corporation had enough cash in the till to donate $20,000 to Texas agricultural experimenters...