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...Captive. Roger decided on action. He called his two beagles, Midge and Queen, and his black & tan mongrel, Nipper, and headed for a hollow beech tree in the woods a mile and a half away. Stationing his dogs near a hole at the base of the trunk in case he scared out any raccoons, he went up the 40-ft. bole like a monkey...
...Wall Street last week, when railroad stocks shot up to their highest level in 20 years, the star performer was Northern Pacific. In two days the stock of "Nipper"*jumped more than 10 points. At 94⅜ it was selling at more than three times last year's low. Investors liked the Nipper not because it was a railroad, but because it owns or has mineral rights on 3,200,000 acres of land in Williston Basin, the nation's richest new oilfield. Its rise surprised thousands of bears who had thought the stock too high after...
...annual report disclosed that it owns 167,500 shares of Northern Pacific, the biggest single block. If this did not give Ohio Match working control of the railroad, it at least gave it the biggest single voice in its management. Unlike other investors, Ohio Match had not been buying Nipper for its oil lands; it was buying it for its timber lands. By virtue of its huge purchases, Ohio Match had been able to get long-term contracts to log Nipper's white pine stands for matches...
...handling its oil leases be improved, got the board to hire Dallas' famed geologist E. De Golyer (TIME, March 24) to survey the railroad's oil lands, and brought in Standard Oil Co. of California's former assistant vice president LeRoy Hines as a new Nipper officer in charge of oil. When Nipper's stockholders hold their annual meeting next fortnight, Simon is expected to shoot off more fireworks. And it looked as if Wall Street would be hearing a lot more about both Northern Pacific and Norton Simon...
...opinion, we express them rather roughly because if we didn't, nobody would hear them. We assembled in Scarborough to have an argument. But that argument has now been replaced by a bigger argument. I have been fighting the Tory all my life ever since I was a nipper. Once we are returned to the House of Commons, we can resume that other argument." With that, fighting Nye addressed himself to the faults of Winston Churchill and the sins of the Tories. In the Arcadia cinema next door, Attlee murmured: "We may have our differences; we may have...