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Left. By William Wallace Atterbury, onetime president of Pennsylvania R. R. (TIME, Sept. 30) : personal and real estate of $357,000 "and upward"; partly in trust, partly outright, to his wife...
...banks of the Androscoggin River in Berlin, N. H. are the mills of Brown Co., a $74,000,000 family-owned paper & pulp concern that was founded as a lumber company in 1852. It has smaller mills in Quebec, general offices in Portland. Me. and timber lands owned outright that are larger in area than the State of Connecticut. The original company was purchased during the Civil War by a Portland lumber merchant named William Wentworth Brown, who branched into paper & pulp in the 1890's. His four sons inherited the business and today are its only officers...
What Mr. Marshall proposed was not an outright purchase of the team, but Vice President Adams could scarcely have been sanguine enough to hope for anything as comfortable as that. It was an arrangement whereby stock in the club would be transferred to a management corporation headed by Mr. Marshall who offered to put up $300,000. In the next five years, the new company would take over all the old stock, in exchange for either cash or new stock. Whether or not the plan goes through depends largely on the Braves' creditors, of whom the biggest is First...
...electric distribution system at the Foundation. It was in bad condition, and it was estimated that about $6,000 would be required to rehabilitate it. I told Mr. Roosevelt that ... we would donate the amount necessary to put the distribution system in order. . . . Mr. Roosevelt did not accept the outright donation. Instead ... he deeded the Foundation's electric distribution system to our company without cost. As a result, the company stood the expense of rehabilitation and, in addition, the Foundation was saved the loss it had previously incurred in operating the distribution system...
...Clairvoyant (Gaumont-British), remotely suggested by an Ernst Lothar novel about a man who discovered he had the gift of detailed and exact prophecy, makes eerie entertainment out of the supernatural. Like The Scoundrel which needed two outright miracles for a happy ending, The Clairvoyant uses the modest method of understatement...