Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After four months' investigation of Tucker Corp., auditors appointed under the reorganization proceedings last week estimated the loss to investors at $18 million. For $25 million collected from the sale of stock, dealer franchises and auto accessories, the auditors could find assets of only $7 million-just half the amount listed by Preston Tucker and company directors when they petitioned the court for trusteeship last March. Where the $18 million had gone was a mystery. The auditors held that a "further investigation" was needed because "certain expenditures [were] of such an extraordinary type and amount...
...Alabama, his agents scoured the wool-hat country, quizzing suspects and witnesses in the latest outbreak of the South's hooded raiders. In Chicago, other agents dug into the murder of two bank messengers and plugged away at the Government's fraud case against Automaker Preston Tucker (TIME, June 20). The FBI was also relentlessly at work on a backlog of continuing cases, including the nation's only two unsolved-and long-forgotten-kidnapings.* They were seeking 1,367 fugitives and 2,462 armed-forces deserters as well...
Rationalizer. In Tucker, Ark., it took seven prison-farm waiters, instead of the usual two, to serve condemned wife-murderer Harvey Rorie the traditional last meal: fried chicken, fried catfish, mayonnaise, coconut cake, coconut pie, lemon pie, one half-gallon French fried potatoes, potato salad, one half-gallon vanilla ice cream, hot biscuits, vegetable salad, half-pound of butter, one gallon of lemonade, one half-gallon of milk, one half-gallon of strong black coffee, two packs of cigarettes, five cigars...
After reading the article on Carl Strandlund and the Lustron home [TIME, July 4], I would say that Preston Tucker hadn't used his head in financing his auto company. Tucker apparently squandered about $28 million belonging to various private individuals and he has the Government and half the newspapers and magazines in the country on his neck. Carl Strandlund "has spent" $32.5 million in a period of about two years, apparently needs $3,000,000 more, is all set to spend another $1,000,000 a month...
...Schenectady Avenue. Brooklyn; Samuel J. Tilden High School, Weisz, George of 958 East 48th Street, Brooklyn; Samuel J. Tilden High School. Jurkowitz, Lawrence of 121-21 14 Avenue, College Point; Flushing High School. Flegenhelmer, Walter Victor of 100-07 70 Avenue. Forest Hills: Forest Hills High School. Tucker, George Leon of 144-31 68 Road, Flushing; Flushing Hills High School...