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...last 20 years, big-dealing Louis Wolfson has built up from scratch an empire with assets he estimates at $100 million plus. Among them: Manhattan's famed building firm of Merritt-Chapman & Scott (Wolfson is chairman), a chain of 21 Florida theaters, Washington's Capital Transit Co., which controls the streetcars and buses in the capital...
Concentrators will need a knowledge of Greek, Latin, German, French, and two Semitic languages by the time they are finished. Consolation is available in the fact that Pfeiffer and Harry A. Wolfson, Littauer Professor of Semitic Literature, are probably the country's top teachers, in this field...
...worth very much. To keep the rates down, the commission had kept whittling away at Capital Transit's "official valuation," and had refused to recognize that inflation had increased its value. Nevertheless, the company was able to pile up some $7,000,000 in surplus. Broadwater, Wolfson & friends* used this money to start boosting the dividends...
...stock, equivalent to $10 a share on the old. And recently he boosted the 25? quarterly rate on the new stock to 35?, equivalent to a pre-split rate of $5.60 a year. So far, Broadwater had declared a total of $19.40 in dividends on the stock that he, Wolfson & friends bought 2½ years ago for $20 a share. And the split stock is selling for $14 a share. Thus, Broadwater & friends almost have their investment back, plus paper profits of about $6,500,000. Broadwater's critics charge that he is letting the company go downhill...
...Wolfson contributed "in excess of $150,000" to Democrat Fuller Warren's successful campaign in 1948 for governor. Manhattan's Merritt-Chapman & Scott, of which Wolfson is board chairman, now has a $3,588,959 contract building the bridge substructure for Jacksonville's new $50 million expressway. The firm, whose total backlog is $89 million, has many big projects outside Florida, including part of California's $30 million Folsom...