Word: larsen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second and third periods, after which Barron of the visitors tallied in the final quarter for Dean's only score. HARVARD 1933 DEAN ACADEMY Fitch, g. g., Wirtling Vandermark, r.f.b. l.f.b., Cosley, Kelley Hasbrook, l.f.b. r.f.b., Rugan Martin, l.h.b. r.h.b., Hodgson Galloway, c.h.b. c.h.b., Fernandez Denison, Grassman, r.h.b. l.h.b., Larsen Schumacher, r.o.f. l.o.f., Collingwood Lindsey, Eaton, r.i.f. l.i.f., Cycowski Eaton, Wygant, Heard, c.f. c.f., Barron Waters, Ossorio, l.i.f., r.o.f., Smith Masjoan, Williams, l.o.f. r.o.f., Dupuis, Wilson...
...groups of U. S. manufacturers, the producers of vegetable and animal oils. With whale oil in direct competition and a lower tariff on it threatened, U. S. fine-oil men heard that sailing for the Antarctic on Norway's first seaplane-equipped whaling boats were Pilots Riisar-Larsen and Leutzowe Holm, seasoned polar flyers for the late Explorer Roald Amundsen. Experiment off Alaska has proven the feasibility of spotting whales from the air at long range, resulting in tremendous kills, big cargoes of whale oil, cheap prices for competition with other oils...
Prosperous, popular investments are the larger Norwegian whaling companies. Last season three of the big ones reported combined profits of over $2,000,000, declared average dividends of 30%. Typical of the industry is the C. A. Larsen, biggest whaling boat (9,431 tons). Last year the C. A. Larsen, her hold filled with whale oil, tossed 500 tons of coal into the sea to make room for more oil, returned with a $1.000,000 cargo. Such trips paid off her construction cost in two years...
...drizzly rain fell over New York harbor at dusk one day last month. A trim little 30-foot cabin sportabout nosed out of the Kill van Kull, turned north across the Upper Bay. Aboard were Manhattan Broker Stuyvesant Fish, owner; Mrs. Fish; their two sons, and Captain A. Phillip Larsen. Mr. Fish was bringing his new yacht, the Restless, up from its builders, American Car and Foundry Co. at Wilmington, Del. From the Brooklyn shore a U. S. patrol boat slid out in pursuit of the Restless. Hard by the Statue of Liberty, the U. S. craft fired twice...
Last year William Larsen, a Department of Justice secret agent, changed his name, on orders from Washington, to Peter Hansen. As Hansen, he secured, in an as-yet-unexplained manner, papers from the U. S. District Court in Detroit, Mich., committing him to the Atlanta Penitentiary for a liquor law violation which he had not committed. Warden John W. Snook received him as any other prisoner...