Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hours-held note of level flight, a beat unhurried...
...police of their son's disappearance. The Governor of Washington dispatched a special detachment of the state patrol to join the hunt. Within 24 hours 15 Department of Justice operatives from Portland, Seattle, San Francisco had converged by plane, train and car on Tacoma. The fearfully expected ransom note, posted at 6 p.m., signed "The Egoist" and demanding $200,000 for George's safe return, arrived special delivery at the Weyerhaeuser home at 6:25. It directed that communication with "The Egoist" be inserted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer over the name of "Percy Minnie." Next day secrecy...
...clock one April morning a tall, square-jawed man sat hunched over a table in his Winchester, Mass. home, writing a note. "Howard W. Lang," it read. "You told me that you would keep after me until you got me. Now you can take full credit for my death...
...scratched to a halt. The man lifted his pen again, boldly signed his name: Bowen Tufts. He slipped the note into his pocket...
...same year (1929) Bowen Tufts founded another investment trust, Railroad Shares Corp., which was to buy stocks & bonds of U.S. and Canadian railroads. Parker & Co. bought all the stock of Railroad Shares (800,000 shares), giving in payment its own note for $8,000,000 Parker & Co. sold the shares to the public, reducing its note to $3,323,000. As in the case of Seaboard Utilities, Parker officials were the managers of Railroad Shares, and Parker & Co. availed itself of the opportunity to "borrow" $1,100,000 in cash...