Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supply of football season tickets for this fall is exhausted, according to a statement issued last night by C. F. Getchell, General Manager of the H. A. A. Six thousand tickets were sold. There is a plentiful stock of H. A. A. Books still on hand, according to Getchell...
What to do with their wealth? Fred J. Fisher apparently took the lead. He went into the stock market. On a large scale, he bought shares of various corporations. Financial writers began calling him a speculator. They linked him with Arthur W. Cutten of Chicago, an out-&-out, but secretive market operator. They compared him with William Crapo Durant, ousted founder of General Motors and now one of the shrewdest, hardest hitting operators in Wall Street...
...Fred J. Fisher, canny, was buying his stock with keen purpose. Revelation came last year when hard-bitten President Samuel M. Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive roared that he would let no "outsider" on to Baldwin Locomotive's board of directors. Fred J. Fisher (and Arthur W. Cutten) made little rebuttal. But at the next Baldwin Locomotive board meeting Fred J. Fisher was truculently made a director (also Mr. Cutten). He controlled sufficient stock (as did Mr. Cutten) to force his election as director...
Someone has been buying heavily into Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing stock. That someone seems to be Fred J. Fisher. But not yet has he done anything overt towards entry into the corporation's directorate...
Seat. A New York Stock Exchange seat was sold last week for $415,000. The previous high price was $398,000, negotiated last May. The Exchange has 1,100 members. No indications exist that the membership will be increased and thus depreciate the value of seats...