Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three-year-olds. After being far ahead, Gailmont broke down, finished eleventh. Hialeah then discovered that, though Gailmont looked very much like a horse of that name and had raced successfully at Agua Caliente, he was not really Gailmont, but Aknahton again, in a new coat of paint. His owner, one Willis Kane, was nowhere to be found. Neither was one John P. Crawford, who bought the real Gailmont last December. Much puzzled by the metamorphic career of Aknahton, racing enthusiasts found out no more about him until last week when E. Phocion Howard, publisher of the lively racing weekly...
...years ago last week, the yacht Ohio dropped anchor in the harbor of Monrovia, Liberia. Her owner, Edward Wyllis Scripps, a big bristly-bearded man of 72 for whom the yacht had been Home for four years, had the U. S. Consul aboard to dine with him. After the consul had gone ashore "Old Man" Scripps felt suddenly, terribly, weary. "Too many cigars this evening, I guess," he mumbled. He sank into unconsciousness and in a few minutes his weak old heart ceased to beat...
...World's Biggest Horse" is Sillon B, 12, pure white, foaled in France, owned by C. H. Van Wickle, of Waterloo, N. Y. Weight: 2,960 Ib. Girth 8 ft. 10 in. Height: 21 hands. Average height for equus: 15 hands. Says Owner Van Wickle: "He's just getting his growth...
...Hershfield work shop is high in Manhattan's Chanin Building. The front of the door is panelled with richly carved Oriental wood which, says its owner, once belonged to an Emperor. To it is thumbtacked a hand lettered sign: "Can see no one by appointment. Phone Murray Hill 2-7889.* Kindly don't loiter in hall. Hershfield...
...give another 1/2% bounty to bond holders. Any cash dividend on the common will give them another 1 % premium. Thus the bonds are "participating conditionally up to 2% additional"?a phrase rare in finance. In addition to this "sweetening," each $1,000 bond has a warrant entitling the owner to buy, from 1933-48, ten shares of common at $5 (current prices: $4). The bonds will be offered to A. G. & E. stockholders and bondholders. And this final detail caused the greatest part of Wall Street's whoop. For Mr. Hopson plans to go farther than anti-hoarding...