Word: overholt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cream and candy saloons). He has interests in V. Vivaudou, Inc., Park & Tilford, Dunhill International, Inc., Melba Manufacturing Co., American Druggists Syndicate, the Alfred H. Smith Co. As amazing sideshows, he paid $75,000,000 for the French tobacco monopoly two years ago, and bought the Overholt distillery (2,000,000 gallons of whiskey) for $15,000,000. Also he is the man who profited $1,000,000 by buying and selling Aeolian Hall in Manhattan within a week in October...
...Adam's apple, his quick loyalties and fierce antagonisms, his life of violent spurts in oblique directions. Both men had had adventurous and active early years, Henry Frick (born 1849) baking coke in Pennsylvania, learning business methods from his grandfather, flour merchant and distiller of famed Overholt Whisky; George Harvey as a reporter, working for the New York World, managing editor...