Word: tinkered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another phase of Equity Corp.'s history before the advent of either Truster Groves or David Milton concerned a predecessor trust called Interstate Equities, originally a $25,000,000 concern sponsored by Bancamerica-Blair Corp. That meant it was managed by such Wall Street bigwigs as Edward Richmond Tinker, Hunter Sylvester Marston and Elisha Walker. Bancamerica-Blair used to cut its affiliated trust into pools and syndicates with the result that Interstate dropped no less than $5,000,000. Messrs. Tinker, Marston & Walker also managed to lose another $13,000,000 in Interstate's ordinary stock and bond...
...selected as the best soaring spot in the U. S. because its prevailing west winds are deflected upwards in successive strata by the huge petrified surf of the Chemung Hills, soarers last week camped in tents below the knolls from which their ships were launched, helped each other tinker their craft, chattered over picnic fires. Major topic of three-dimensional sailing enthusiasts, like that of yachtsmen, is the weather. Because the weather at Elmira for the last three years has been disappointing, pilots discussed moving their annual meet to Ellenville, N. Y., in the Catskills. After one painfully calm...
...every summer, to Palm Beach every winter. Kent yachts ply all the waters from Maine to Florida. The Kent garages must be big enough to hold a score of cars, for Mr. Kent dislikes driving the same car two days in succession. He used to buy them second hand, tinker them himself...
...argument with his chemistry professor, he worked with the State Water Survey Office testing Illinois River water, later with Chicago Storage Battery Co., where he became interested in the heat resistant qualities of metal conductors. William Hoskins, a consulting chemist, let Marsh use his lab oratory after work to tinker with alloys, later took him into the firm of Mariner & Hoskins. That is where Chromel was born. Hoskins Co. was incorporated in 1908, marketing an electric furnace developed during the Chromel experimentations. Next year the company was moved from Chicago to Detroit. Hoskins dropped out in 1910, and Marsh...
...banking situation was met according to the original plan, he says, but the belief that you can tinker with the currency "just a-lee-tle" and control monetary inflation soon wrecked the sound financial program to solve the burden of debt...