Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riding the competitive bidding wave today is red-faced Board Chairman Robert Ralph Young of Allegheny Corp., who has been in the middle of a hectic three-year fight to get control of Allegheny's railroad substructures, notably prosperous Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. Bob Young believes that at every turn Morgan interests blocked his way. One of his retaliations has been to get in the way of Morgan Stanley & Co. every time it goes after a railroad securities issue...
...artful use of newspaper publicity, and by telegrams, letters and phone calls to directors, Broker Young forced competitive bidding for a $30,000,000 C. & O. issue last December. Morgan Stanley, who had had the issue sewed up, stepped out, and C. & O. got an extra $1,350,000 on the issue. Last February, by the same means, Mr. Young forced competition for a $12,000,000 Cincinnati Union Terminal issue; Morgan Stanley withdrew again, and the Terminal got $45,000 extra for its bonds. Last week, after a barrage of letters, wires, phone calls, the directors of Terminal Railroad...
...such odds seemed better than their humdrum jobs (a broker's office, a radio-tube factory). Resolved to hunt orchids themselves, they somehow persuaded U. S. orchid growers to stake them to orders for 6,400 cattleyas from Colombia and Venezuela. When, one Christmas Eve, the venturesome young men reached Boca Grande, Orchid Hunter MacDonald was already at work on notes for his readable, Rover-Boyish orchid odyssey...
...orchid hunter gave them a map with orchid hotspots neatly indicated. In Bogota they fell in with 67-year-old J. B., "six feet three inches tall, lean and hard, definitely English." His hunches about orchid hiding places were nearly infallible. With this sort of luck and help the young men made good...
Though he writes best about orchids, shrewd Author MacDonald does not write too much about them. He senses that most readers will read his jungle success story for its account of guácharos, birds with whiskers on their beaks (when their young fall out of the nest they plop and explode), trees that put people to sleep, moths whose sting drives men insane...