Word: hutchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operates every day, delivers babies in small kitchens on the same table where potatoes have been peeled that morning, walks through a slashing to a hutch for an appendicitis operation, is called from bed to diagnose a belly ache, is kept from bed by a broken arm. He still gets about four hours of sleep a night and in the mornings the knives sometimes tremble in his hands. He smokes too many cigarettes. This again is not heroic. People are sick and people are poor and other people take care of them. This, too, is stinking and sweaty...
...stock and commodity exchanges. Not so the "squeeze," which approaches a corner without actually turning it. Last week the corn pit of the Chicago Board of Trade, slumbering in the doldrums of depression, was stirred to humming life by a squeeze worthy of the late great Benjamin P. ("Old Hutch") Hutchinson himself. Thomas Montgomery Howell, a wiry, taciturn La Salle Street grain broker who is picked by many to fill the big shoes left empty when Arthur William Cutten moved up to Winnipeg (TIME, Jan. 26), was the squeezer. Many a fellow trader, including (according to stoutly denied reports...
...Pynchon & Co. formed an important unit in the U. S. investment structure. It came into existence 36 years ago in Chicago as Raymond, Pynchon & Co., a Board of Trade house and moved to New York the same year. Once thought to be its prize customer was Benjamin F. ("Old Hutch") Hutchinson, greatest of the grain manipulators, who cornered wheat in 1888. Perhaps one reason for the move to Manhattan was that at that time potent Chicago speculators, including John W. ("Bet-a-Million") Gates and Col. John Adams Drake, were transferring activity to Wall Street. Later the firm played...
...BOOK OF SIMON-A. S. M. Hutch- inson-Little, Brown...