Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wall Streeters could match the Midas touch and power of Williams. An Ohio boy who ran a tricycle factory at 19, he brought his profits to Manhattan, multiplied them in the tire business, then got in on the ground floor of the great electric power boom. By 1924, with a total investment of $2,072,000, he had won 96% control of the great Central States Electric Corp. combine, and with it reared a pyramid of utilities topped by his fabulous North American holding company. The great expansion of the nation and the big bull market boomed his companies. Between...
Whenever Manhattan's key-hole columnists tire of puffing their friends or scalping their public enemies, they refresh their spirits by jealously skinning one another. Last week the knives came out with a vengeance. And, fittingly enough, Walter Winchell, who is the busiest scalper, this time got the closest skinning...
Died. Russell Allen Firestone, 50, second of five sons of the late tire tycoon Harvey Firestone and a director of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; after long illness; in Manhattan. He devoted his leisure to a series of civic-minded hobbies: the Victory Garden movement (he was a vice president), the 4-H Clubs, the Future Farmers of America...
...poetry-for-the-people movement expects to be successful, it could well take a lesson from Amory who nearly succeeded in joining poetry and drama without losing the best points of either form. Otherwise, even select audiences may tire of seeing a poet's soul so confusingly bared...
Independent Income. In Kansas City, Dennis Hudson, 39, explained why he had stolen a car: he intended to sell its spare tire, because "I wanted to pay my own way in life and didn't want to ask my relatives in Denver for money...