Word: p
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Behind her, beaten, labored the packet Natchez, burning up "doors, furniture, hundreds of hams and slabs of side meat." The Robert E. Lee's record stood until last week when three exhausted, red-eyed men tottered ashore at St. Louis from the 150 h. p. speed launch Bogie. They had not slept for four days. Their running time was 87 hr. 31 min. The Bogie's owner, a Dr. Louis Leroy, was 5 cents richer-a bet won from Yachtsman George M. Cox of New Orleans, whose Martha Jane, racing the Bogie, faltered at Natchez...
When the Federal Trade Commission became interested in the newspaper-buying activities of International Paper & Power Co. last spring, the fact was disclosed that two young men named William Lavarre and Harold Hall had been commissioned by I. P. & P. to buy a chain of newspapers in the South (TIME, May 20). They bought four: Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, Columbia (S. C.) Record, Spartanburg (S. C.) Herald and Journal. Purchase money amounting to $870,000, the buyers told the Commission, was loaned to them by I. P. & P...
Last week one of the young men, Buyer Lavarre, filed suit in Columbia, S. C. against I. P. & P. and its subsidiary, International Paper Co., asking $2,500,000 damages, less the $870,000 already advanced. His allegations...
...P. & P. agreed to lend $2.500,000 for the newspaper purchases. After the Commission's investigations, I. P. & P. withheld the money...
...P. & P. conspired to gain control of the four newspapers after their acquisition by Lavarre & Hall...