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...Freeport, Me., the citizens took thought for their pocketbooks, voted against increasing the power of the town street lights from 60 watts to 100 watts...
...theory into practice. For some time the going was rough; Citizen bill collectors went knocking on advertisers' doors the day their ads appeared. But McCarthy, undaunted, poured $1,000,000 into his chain, expanded into Houston suburbs as well as south into Texas City and the Freeport area. With lots of neighborhood news of Boy Scouts, schools, garden clubs, etc., he distributes 158,000 papers a week, last February finally got into the black...
Other officers named to the new executive board were Michael Joseph Halberstam '53 of Torrington, Connecticut and Dunster House as Associate Managing Editor; James Moorfield Storey '53 of Jamaica Plain and Eliot House as Sports Editor; and James Baron Adler '53 of Freeport, New York and Winthrop House as Advertising Manager...
...novices in the sulphur business, learning it from scratch, the young partners knew enough to see that Freeport's resources were alarmingly low. They set out to find new sulphur beds, by the mid-30s had put the company squarely on its feet again with Louisiana's Grand Ecaille, Freeport's biggest mine, built the whole town of Port Sulphur (1950 pop. 2,250) to house the workers and ship the sulphur. Watery Mine. To get the brimstone out of the ground at Garden Island, Freeport plans to build a $10 to $15 million plant. Garden Island...
Williams, scion of a Virginia banking family, went to work at Manhattan's Lee, Higginson & Co. after graduating from Harvard Business School. In 1929, after switching to his father's bank, he started a proxy fight to wrest Freeport's control away from a management he thought slipshod. Young Whitney, heir to an estimated $100 million fortune, had taken a $15-a-week "buzzer boy" job at Lee, Higginson rather than loaf. At the suggestion of his department boss, 25-year-old Whitney plunked a $500,000 stake into Williams' fight, enabled...