Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...According to lean, curly-haired Mr. Getty, President Humphrey and nine other Tide Water directors besides himself and Mr. Grimm controlled only 8½% of the company's stock, yet they ran it and sought to perpetuate themselves. But the other stockholders, having been solicited by both sides, stuck by the management. Mr. Getty lost on each point, was unseated as a director. Although he would have lost anyway, Mr. Getty was annoyed by the fact that Mission's 1,128,000 votes, which he nominally controlled, were cast against him. Reason: Mission was, and still is, dominated...
...great catastrophe was in the offing, after all. At 6:30, when the blast had been going forty-five minutes, a phone call to the Cambridge police evoked the information that the noise "was just some engineer's locomotive whistle over in Brighton that's got stuck." Promptly at 6:32 o'clock it apologetically stopped...
...spite of the fact that Marcy and Channing have run good races, and in spite of the fact that the others stuck pretty closely behind them, they still failed to lick Yale which will be entered in the I.C. 4 A competition. In other words the outlook is dark, so dark in fact that no one is doing a great deal of worrying about the affair one way or another...
Even more cheering last week to Walter Sachs and his partners than the proposed Sears underwriting was the final interment of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. Though the firm was stuck by its own investment (originally $12,000,000) in that ill-fated venture, control was acquired by Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., which changed the name to Pacific Eastern Corp. Last week in a corporate simplification program, Pacific Eastern was submerged into Atlas...
...Paris, awakening during scheduled war-defense exercises, Joseph Rasse heard screaming sirens, saw all lights on, concluded war had begun, stuck his head in a gas oven, attempted suicide...