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CHARLES C. PETERSON Fort Myer...
Profits from Rolling. For such infighting, Myer Schine had plenty of rough-&-tumble business experience. A Russian immigrant, he went to school in Jamestown, N.Y., worked as a candy butcher on trains, then as a dress salesman. In 1918, he and his brother plunked down $1,500 in savings to lease a dilapidated building called the Hippodrome at Gloversville, N.Y. (pop: 23,329). With the Hippodrome, variously used as a theater, roller-skating rink and dance hall, he made enough money to buy Gloversville's two movie houses. Snapping up other small-town theaters by the dozen, he soon...
...while he and other hotelmen cautiously debated upping their bids a bit, in stepped Junious Myer Schine, 54, who has picked up over $30,000,000 worth of choice hotels* in less than three years in the business. He talked turkey to a group of California brokers who held a fat chunk of the trust certificates. To the consternation of Hilton et al., Schine last week paid $55 apiece for 51% of the certificates. For his $1,621,510 he got control of the hotel...
...Myer G. Jasper...
...Norman Myer, Melbourne department-store owner: a folding crutch which can be converted into a chair when its user wants to stop and rest. Mr. Myer bought the rights from the Australian inventor in order to present the device royalty-free to United Nations' war veterans...