Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more significant phenomenon than airmail or air express. The first passenger in a heavier than air machine was one Charles Furnas, employe of the Wright brothers. As everyone knows they were first to fly successfully, at Kitty Hawk, N.C., Dec. 17, 1903. A few months prior, the late great Samuel Pierpoint Langley's plane had failed to take the air successfully at Widewater, Va., on the Potomac...
...suddenly as Samuel Insull's power interests came into the investigation, they went out, when Charles O'Malley, Boston advertising agent referred to in Carberry's letter, testified he had not mentioned Insull to Carberry; had mentioned, instead, two Manhattan brokers, one Campion, one Colloran, who wanted to buy the Post for "other interests...
...mammoth investment trust is Ungerleider Corp., with its relatively modest 25-million-dollar initial capital. But in view of current criticisms, its structure attracted attention. It begins life with a management contract entered into with Samuel Ungerleider & Co., which provides that the brokerage house will receive no compensation except standard commissions unless the investment trust has earned in excess of 8% on its capital. When more than 8% has been earned, Samuel Unger leider & Co. will receive 20% of net profits, but only if the payment of such 20% does not reduce the corporation's profit below...
Last week convening clergy and laymen of the Pennsylvania diocese, by no means desperate but evidently spurred by their necessity, announced the election of yet another man. Turning again to New England, they had singled out, for their fifth choice, Headmaster (Dr.) Samuel Smith Drury of famed, old-established St. Paul's School at Concord, N. H., largest Episcopal private school...
...Frank Ernest Gannett, owner of 17 chain-papers, who distinguished himself a fortnight ago, not by announcing that International Paper & Power Co. had bought stock in four of his papers, but by announcing that he had bought back such stock from I. P. & P. (TIME, May 13): and Samuel Emory Thomason, co-owner of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (Chicago Journal, Greensboro, N. C., Record, Tampa, Fla., Tribune) in which are one million Graustein dollars...