Word: miltons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lefier attachment is backed by a syndicate which includes Manhattan's famed banking firm of Lehman Brothers and Milton Erlanger of Erlanger Mills (B. V. D.'s). They sent a small, vociferous textile man named George Fisher to Paris where he acquired U. S. rights from Socièté de Construction et d'Appareillage Scientifique pour le Tricotage et le Tissage, otherwise known as "Socast." U. S. sales plans are to be formulated this month...
...Leader of the legal triumvirate was Dexter Hamilton, a brusque, 56-year-old onetime Texas judge who is general counsel for Southwestern Life Insurance Co. However, the company he counseled was controlled not by fellow-Texans but by a Manhattan investment trust run by David Meriwether Milton, son-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller...
...stock he bought was not Southwestern's but that of General American Life Insurance Co., which did indeed control Southwestern. General American got Southwestern's stock by way of Missouri State Life, which failed in 1933. General American had later been formed by David Milton's investment trust to take over Missouri State's business and assets. The corporate set-up which confronted Lawyer Hamilton last week was Mr. Milton's investment trust, which controls General American, which in turn controlled his coveted Southwestern. What Lawyer Hamilton did was to buy control of General American...
Births. Life's biologic processes went on, hastened by the stress & strain of disaster. In Milton, Pa. a baby was born in a high-school biology laboratory. In Kingstown, Pa. a woman gave birth in a street car. In Wilkes-Barre two were delivered in rescuing Army trucks. In Brunswick, Me., as his wife and newborn son were rowed safely from their flooded home, grateful Emilien Racine named the child Moses. In Johnstown 653 people took refuge in a hilltop dance hall. Soon there were...
Last January it struck a photographic plate under Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope, where its record was observed by famed Edwin Powell Hubble. Because of its great distance the star never approached naked-eye visibility, faded rapidly in late February. But Dr. Hubble's coworker, Dr. Milton LaSalle Humason, took spectroscopic and photometric observations which indicated that at the peak of its long-ago death agony the super-nova was 50 times as hot and 10,000,000 times as bright...