Word: kan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...athletic director. After going there, he in vented three more games: war-tug, hilo, vreille (popular only among Kansas co eds). In 1907 Dr. Naismith was replaced as Kansas basketball coach. Since then, his principal contact with the game has been sitting in the front row to watch Kan sas teams, which have won four Big Six Conference championships. Last autumn Dr. Forrest C. Allen, University of Kansas' basketball coach, who makes $4,000 to Dr. Naismith's $3,000, promoted the idea of sending grey-haired old Dr. Naismith to Berlin to see the Olympic games next...
...Tokyo fortnight ago 10.000 sumo addicts, including nobility, geisha, schoolboys, government officials, watched the matches on each of the ten days of the Kokugi-kan tournament. Outside the arena, thousands more bet on the matches, followed the results on score boards. Of the money spent for tickets, the performers got a trifling share. As stupid as they are immense, sumo performers are content with a maximum pay of $100 a month augmented only by gifts of swords, bottles of sake, new aprons from generous admirers. Four years ago, a sumo strike for better pay, shorter hours, cheaper seats, a mutual...
...relations between Columbia Oil & Gasoline Corp., an affiliate of Columbia Gas & Electric, and Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. This latter company was the major operating unit for Frank P. Parish's famed Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co., which in 1930 thousands of Market speculators referred to as Mo-Kan, at first with affection, later with despair. Promoter Parish planned to pipe natural gas from Amarillo, Tex. to Indianapolis, a distance of some 1,250 miles. Since pipe lines cost! anywhere from $22,000 to $40,000 a mile, Mr. Parish had on his hands a most ambitious undertaking. Running...
Signing of the consent decree was thought likely to result in an out-of-court settlement of a $180,000,000 damage suit brought by Mo-Kan receivers against Columbia Gas & Electric. The receivers, like the Government, argued that Columbia had throttled Mo-Kan through abuse of its control of Panhandle. But since Mr. Parish himself took a helpful part in the negotiations leading to the consent decree, it was believed that the $180,000,000 litigation would never face a judge...
...Still pending are Mo-Kan suits against Standard Oil of New Jersey and Cities Service and others for $150,000,000. Mr. Parish claimed that these companies engineered a bear raid on Mo-Kan stock, caused it to break from $36 a share to $15 a share on June 16, 1930. Mr. Parish had formed Frank P. Parish & Co. to sell shares in Mo-Kan and when the Mo-Kan market collapsed Underwriter Parish was stuck with large blocks of Pipeliner Parish's shares. Since he was financing his pipeline entirely through stock sales, no more sales meant...