Word: ohrstrom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William S. Knudsen (General Motors) $459,878; Actor Gary Cooper $370.214; Actor Ronald Colman $362,500; Actress Claudette Colbert $350.833; Thomas J. Watson (International Business Machines) $342.008; Spyros Skouras (theatres) $341.009; Actress Mae West $323,333; Vincent Fitzgerald (G. L. Ohrstrom & Co. Inc.) $320.296; Charles F. Kettering (General Motors) $304.400; Rudy Vallee $238.744; Eugene Grace (Bethlehem Steel) $180.000; Alfred E. Smith (Empire State...
...Fitzgerald, G. L. Ohrstrom...
...young, dull or brilliant, Mr. Ohrstrom could scarcely have foreseen in March 1929 that it would rain hardly at all in the summer of 1930. The dryness that year had a desiccating effect upon the revenues of Tri-Utilities' Federal Water Service Corp. This damper summer the president of Federal Water (Christopher Tompkins Chenery) has announced that while earnings are lower, they are steady...
...charges that they sought to make themselves a monopoly. Last week Tri-Utilities, faced with the payment of interest due on $11,197,000 of 5% debentures, and with some $2,000,000 notes falling due Dec. 15, beheld a problem in financing that not even brilliant young Mr. Ohrstrom could solve. The result was the biggest public utility failure (and one of few) in the present Depression, far overshadowing the demise...
...Foshay utility system (Minneapolis) which crashed into receivership with the stockmarket in 1929. To his offices at No. 36 Wall Street, George Ohrstrom called help one night last week. There came : Richard Carley Hunt, utility-experienced member of the legal firm of Chadbourne, Hunt, Jaeckel & Brown; William Buchsbaum, utility executive and sportsman; and young, heavy-set Medley G. B. Whelpley, president of American Express Bank & Trust Co. As a reorganization committee (Mr. Hunt, chairman), they hoped to have an announcement to make by the middle of September, hoped the properties might continue to operate intact. The United States District Court...