Word: selig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General American Tank Car, builder and lessor of freight cars, earned $2,475,000 against $3,653,000. President of the company since last October is young Lester North Selig...
...some fun. But he also may have had in mind the realization that his business, General American Tank Car Corp., is a youngman affair. Certainly the Board of Directors were of such a mind, for last week they chose as Mr. Mayer's successor in the presidency, Lester North Selig, slight, boyish-looking...
President Selig went to law school in Brooklyn, where he was born and raised. But as soon as he was given his degree he decided that law was not for him. At the invitation of Max Epstein, founder (with five tank cars) and at that time president of G. A. T. C., he went to Chicago, started to work riveting under-frames of tank cars. After factory experience, he was transferred through the departments ? purchasing, operation, ac counting ? to learn the business thoroughly. In 1920 he was made assistant to Mr. Epstein, who, upon the ascendancy...
Although on the whole freight car loadings have decreased during the Depression, G. A. T. C., with assets close to $100,000,000, earned $4.58 on its common the first six months of 1930, will show (says President Selig) $2.50 more for the third quarter and at least $9 for the year?best year in G. A. T. C. history. Asked to explain this apparent paradox, President. Selig called attention to the fact that most of his business is concerned with transporting foodstuffs. "People continue to eat," says...
...five appointments of lecturers, only one will take effect this spring. Professor Selig Hecht of Columbia University will be Howe Lecturer on Opthalmology at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. W. S. Duke Elder of London will assume the same lectureship next year...