Word: tomlinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were the two septuagenarian Midwest industrialists who backed the brothers last year when they bought back control of their vast rail and real-estate properties at public auction in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 7, 1935). These backers were George Alexander Ball, 74, Muncie (Ind.) fruit-jar tycoon and George Ashley Tomlinson, 70, Great Lakes ship operator. The two George A.'s together put up $3,121,000 to buy the key collateral pledged by the Van Sweringens for defaulted loans from a J. P. Morgan & Co. banking group, setting up a concern called Midamerica Corp. as a new super-holding...
...except their native resourcefulness, the railroading brothers were in a position to stage what might have been the most spectacular comeback of their generation. Under the arrangement with their backers, however, they could not bequeath this potentiality in their last will & testament. Control of Midamerica reverted to Messrs. Ball & Tomlinson-principally Mr. Ball. Since neither of these gentlemen cared to cope with the discouragingly complex Van Sweringen corporate setup, they had to find a successor to Brother Oris Paxton...
...original partners. In that year the wholesalers through whom IGA does business asked, and received, a 50% interest in the business, equal representation on the board of directors. There are now 65 IGA wholesalers with a total of 110 branches. Most of them are old, established houses like Milliken, Tomlinson Co. in New England and E. R. Godfrey & Sons Co. of Milwaukee (egg-bald, bespectacled President James D. Godfrey is chairman of the IGA board). From each store the wholesaler collects $3.50 per week for service. Each wholesaler pays IGA headquarters $4.75 per month per store for merchandising advice, mats...
...Contributed in one 45-minute call Si.oSo to (he missions of the Church of God of A. J. Tomlinson...
...Heard the Founder's son. Rev. Homer Tomlinson of Jamaica, L. I., report that the Church had attracted "thousands of converts in Russia...