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...Yardlings swept the six singles and three doubles matches with the loss of but one set. Ross Lyell, Homer Peabody, Barney Straus, Jasper Dick, Julian McGee and Ted Miller turned in the singles victories...
...largely for new construction, General Foods Corp. sold 150,000 shares of new preferred stock. Offered at $101 a share-through 39 underwriting firms headed by Goldman, Sachs & Co., Lehman Brothers, Brown, Harrison & Co., First Boston Corp., Smith, Barney & Co. and Kidder, Peabody & Co. -the issue promptly went to a premium at $104, was oversubscribed in an hour. C. One of Myron Taylor's prescriptions for U. S. Steel Corp. when he was elected its finance committee chairman in 1927 was a realistic appraisal of its funded debt. In 1929, in the biggest industrial refinancing in U. S. history...
Ross Lyell found stiff competition from Tech's number one man in the singles, winning 6-4, 13-11. Homer Peabody, Barney Straus, Jack Dick, Huge Earle, and Langy Marvin followed him up with easy victories over their opponents...
...American Aviation, Inc. to a banking group formed by Eastern's general manager, Captain Edward Vernon Rickenbacker. Elected president of the new company, Eastern Air Lines, Inc., was Eddie Rickenbacker. His backers include Harold S. Vanderbilt and the Wall Street investment firms of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Smith, Barney & Co. Last week these two firms offered 416,666 shares of common stock at $10 a share to a select group. By week's end some 75% of the stock had been taken up. If the rest remains unsold, the general public may get a crack...
...Born Barney Isaacs in London's Whitechapel, Barnato became a juggler, comedian, boxer, diamond merchant and eventually financial master of the South African mining fields. He was first a rival and then an ally of the imperious, imperialistic Cecil Rhodes. Author Lewinsohn's account makes Barnato out a kindly, comical, shrewd, enterprising fellow whose great achievement was amalgamating scattered mines and who was overshadowed as soon as Rhodes appeared with his bold political adventures and schemes for establishing a diamond monopoly. Sometimes Barnato's democratic traits popped out unexpectedly (when a society lady asked...