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...early utility days, Mr. Insull likes best to recall the year 1903 when he installed in Chicago Edison's Fisk Street Station a generator of the steam turbine type much bigger than any previously used. On the day of the opening the engineer suggested that Mr. Insull leave the room...
When a company shows two consecutive deficits of $45 and $38 on its first preferred stock, it is about time for that company to retire. Fisk Rubber Co. bondholders had some such idea in January 1931, when they threw the company into receivership after it failed to pay off an $8,000,000 note. Most people thought the last had been heard of Fisk...
Liquidation seemed likely, perhaps an auction of the properties. From posters at hairpin curves and blind bridges no more would Fisk's stocky little boy, ready for bed, candle in hand, peer down the dull macadam way with his grinning advice...
...Levy did his work on Fisk for Richard H. Swartwout, chairman of the new board, who once described himself as a "selector of presidents." During his investment banking days he helped reorganize many a defunct or tottering enterprise: Union Bag & Paper Corp., American-La France Fire Engine Co., Norfolk Southern Railroad, Intertype Corp., Dictaphone Corp., Ansco Photo-products, Inc. Twice he and his friends had working control of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, sold out both times at a profit. Backer Swartwout said Fisk's plans for a new selling campaign would not be ready for several months...
...Fisk University Singers (sustaining program). Sundays...