Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foshay, born in Ossining, N. Y., started out to be an artist. But his father's business failure put an end to his art courses at Columbia University.* For four years he worked with the New York Central Railroad Co., later he joined Electric Bond & Share Co. His career, however, did not start until the day he walked into Minneapolis, independent, 36, with little money but a shrewd knowledge and liking of public utilities. His plan: to own and operate public utilities. His method of finance: selling Foshay securities to the public. Within one year he owned public utilities...
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. reported nine months' net profit greater by $5,254,176 than its corresponding net last year. Similarly the Southern Railway System showed an increase...
...last previous public utterance: "I have every reason to be grateful on my ninetieth birthday. Everybody has been so kind and good to me all year...
...Sometimes too they were spent at the Isaac Silver & Brothers Stores (5-to-$1.00). If any Southerner or Midwesterner were ever in doubt as to which of the chain stores he would rather patronize, that difficulty was removed last week when the two merged. Their combined gross business last year: $31,000,000; combined number of stores: 140. There are 554 Kresge stores, 1,802 Woolworth...
...Rochester (N. Y.) Philharmonic under Conductor Eugene Goossens gave the first of eleven concerts. This year it is coexistent with a Civic Orchestra, planned last year to provide employment for Eastman Theatre musicians when that theatre was leased to Publix Corp. The new orchestra, composed of 50 players (nucleus of the Philharmonic), financed by 10,000 Rochesterians, has begun a season of 75 concerts, 32 of which will be given free during schooltime to public and parochial students, 32 on Sunday afternoons with small admission charges...