Word: hungerford
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...share to .9%. But it had a reputation for quality, plus substantial assets and a promising moneymaker in its new smelter at Baie Comeau, Canada. Last April, apparently afraid that Reynolds or some other aggressive U.S. concern would buy control, Aluminium's chairman, Viscount Portal of Hungerford. got stockholder approval to boost the firm's shares from 9,000,000 to 13,500,000, sell the extra shares for expansion capital. Portal decided that the U.S. company he wanted as a partner was Alcoa. Last October Alcoa offered $8.40 a share (the market price...
Died. Ernest Eden Norris, 76, longtime (1937-51) president of the Southern Railway Co., "the guy''-according to Frisco line President Clark Hungerford-"who brought the Southern from doldrums to dividends," father of Novelist Frank Collan (Tower in the West) Norris; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A lifetime railroader who began his career in his teens, Norris ceaselessly patrolled the Southern in his office car, knew every foot of the road's 8,000 miles of track, once walked away from a wreck and waited until that evening to have a broken collarbone set with...
...Marie Louise Antoinette Hungerford. Downvill. Entrée le 15 Janvier...
These words, written by a Belgian nun in the register of St. Catherine's Female Academy at Benicia, Calif., were as important to Louise Hungerford as if they were inscribed in the Almanach de Gotha. They were her cachet of respectability, her inner answer to the poverty of childhood and the gossiping envy that surrounded her later life. Her father could afford to keep her at St. Catherine's for only a single term. But it was enough. In her 85th year, when she had been a friend of the former Queen of Spain and the Prince...
RAILROAD DEAL between the St Louis-San Francisco Railroad and the Central of Georgia is finally in the works after about two years of effort by Frisco President Clark Hungerford. For more than $15 milhon Frisco has bought 239,709 shares of Central stock (47% of the total), is filing application with the ICC for permission to buy control of Central making a new system stretching 7,000 miles from the Midwest to the Atlantic Coast. The two roads will be operated as separate divisions under their current managements, have a combined value of nearly $500 million...