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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studies and sports. The school was MEANT to be entirely different from Taft, Choate, Kent and all the rest, which tended to turn out "types." As for the "rich kids," let me tell you that only a mere handful of the 90-odd boys there during my three years paid the full $1,500 tuition then asked...
...fields where the St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) railroad meanders down from St. Louis to Memphis, then spraddles put over the Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas hinterland. This week the year of Jubilo began for the Cotton Belt's common stockholders. The Cotton Belt, which went bankrupt in 1935, finally paid a common stock dividend ($5), its first in its 57 years...
Static. Koons sold the steel, at $215 a ton, to a Cleveland steel broker. It rapidly passed through two other brokers "around the grapevine" until it was bought by Louis Golden, a Detroit broker. Golden paid $300 a ton. On paper, the steel had traveled from Detroit to New York to Cleveland and back to Detroit, and $200 a ton had been added to its price. Actually it never left K-F's warehouse...
Last week, Green had some other pleasant figures to play with. The Cotton Belt had paid off its $2.8 million bank debt and $2.3 million owed the Southern Pacific. It was the only major railroad to come out of bankruptcy with its stockholders' interests 100% intact. (Stockholders in other reorganized railroads lost some $2.5 billion when their shares were washed out as worthless.) Six years ago, the I.C.C. had declared the Cotton Belt's stock worthless, too. In 1944, when the stock was suspended from trading on-the New York Stock Exchange, it sold for $1 a share...
...Maddux' strategy really paid off against the BLC as Captain Hans Estin, recently moved to attack, sparked a previously dormant attack with his three goals and five assists. Estin, taking over the berth of last year's star Jay Hurley, harried the BLC defense with a brilliant exhibition of dodging and back-of-the-goal play-making...