Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breed, train and fly homing pigeons, and professional squab farmers, who rear pigeons for the table, there are more than 17,000 pigeon fanciers in the U. S. whose hobby is raising pigeons for shows. Last week, 8,000 fanciers and spectators and about half that many birds, worth $50,000, were in the State Armory at Peoria, Ill. for the 18th National Pigeon Show, most important of the half dozen major pigeon fiestas held in the U. S. each year. First event of the show was nose drops. Because pigeons are susceptible to influenza, their owners dose them before...
...John Reed, New York's Representative Hamilton Fish Jr., Economist Stuart Chase. The Class of 1911, however, sported so few notables 25 years after graduation as to prompt Sportswriter John Roberts Tunis, Harvard 1911, to publish a pessimistic portrayal of his classmates' aspirations and accomplishments (Was College Worth While?}. Most distinguished member of 1911, in the consensus of the class, was Cartoonist Gluyas Williams, who shone on the Harvard Lampoon as an undergraduate. For First Marshal, the Class of 1911 elected former President Herbert Jaques of the U. S. Golf Association. Few of 1911 got rich, fewer...
...trust companies, a sugar refinery, an abrasive wheel factory. Most of his fortune he made from the tube company, which manufactures oil well casings and pipelines. He took over its management in 1901, is now sole owner. Dr. Cook's cluster of green-&-white observatory buildings contain equipment worth $100,000, represent a total investment of $200,000. Last summer, at a cost of some $9,000, he acquired the world's biggest star camera, weighing more than two tons. It has a 61-in. lens, takes pictures...
...Like all banking houses, like many a good merchant. First Boston operates to a large extent on borrowed money, loans payable amounting to some $55,000,000 at the year end. As one of the biggest government bond dealers in the U. S., First Boston had $30.000,000 worth of Treasury issues on its shelves. Other securities, including those in joint trading accounts, footed up to $15,400,000. It had sold short about $2,000.000 worth of securities, carried under the liability item, "Securities Sold Not Yet Purchased." For other investment bankers as well as Colonel Pope...
...flowed, bringing back to Tide Water the title it has held six times since 1921, when 4,683 ft. was deep enough for a world record, C. Offered last week by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Lehman Bros, and a syndicate of 72 banking houses were $40,000,000 worth of 15-year 3^% sinking fund debentures of Tide Water Associated Oil Co. Also underwritten were 500,000 shares of $4.50 cumulative convertible preferred stock. Until Feb. 8, holders of Tide Water's 626,221 shares of 6% preferred will have first call on the new preferred, which unlike...