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...public for $50,000,000 in 1930. The plaintiff: Samuel Mann, a New Yorker who has 332 shares of the stock and a lawyer son. The general charge: that Consolidated had been dominated by Hearst (who owns common-stock control) for the benefit of his privately owned "upstream" companies. The demand: restitution to Consolidated of $32,500,000 which it was claimed had been lost through intercorporate finagling...
...that kind of money, Samuel Mann & son were entitled to feel pretty good. But Hearst and his associates were absolved of fraud or bad faith. Aware that most of the verdict could be paid off by canceling a $4,200,000 Consolidated debt to the upstream companies, they thought that they had won the suit...
...Shreve did not believe the deep-draught New Orleans would long ride over the Mississippi snags. And could she travel upstream against the current? Even Fulton had his doubts. He wrote: "I do not see by what means a boat containing 100 tons of merchandise can be driven six miles an hour in still water. . . ." He offered $100,000 for the patent on a boat that could...
Weld boat house, although it seldoms gains the publicity accorded its upstream neighbor, remains a very integral part of the Harvard rowing picture, boating many more men a day than Newell. The climax of the Weld season occured last week when the finals of the college singles races were run off. In the most important race of the regatta, for the Darcy Memorial Cup, given this year for the first time, Phil Wilson upset the dope by edging George Hurd, the favorite by a quarter length over the mile course. Harry Hammond took the Junior singles title for the three...
Boarding her craft upstream at the Cambridge Club, the Bunnies' new coxswain, Patty David of Dallas, successfully piloted her charges, all of them hanging at the catch, past a cheering Weld Boathouse float and disappeared downstream in the direction of Peter Black's Chinese Junk...