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Although Arizona boosters gagged, Dr. Buck-who had been invited into Arizona by Arizona Superintendent of Health Dr. George Collingwood Truman, Phoenix's City Manager Evan S. Stallcup and Dean Edwin Selden Lane of Phoenix's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral-continued: ''A very considerable number of longtime permanent residents-real Arizonans-do have tuberculosis and die from it. ... The foregoing probably constitute the most important, and with one possible exception, but by no means all, public health problems in Arizona. That exception is the control of venereal diseases, or more specifically, syphilis and gonorrhea...
...management along with his predecessor, Chester E. Rahr, were five executives including 70-year-old Chairman George Marion Brown, who had been the mainspring of Certainteed ever since its beginning as a small tar-paper plant in East St. Louis in 1904. Precipitator of the shuffle was Phoenix Securities' smart President Wallace Groves, who bought Mr. Brown's controlling interest in Certainteed last spring. What Mr. Groves wanted was a stake in the current building boom. What he acquired was a big com pany with a poor record. Certainteed has had losses every year from...
Recovery, however, came by no means too late. Last summer Phoenix Securities' Groves helped put through a dazzling recapitalization plan which substituted 382,300 shares of $1 par common stock for 382,300 shares outstanding at a declared value of $15 a share, eliminated back dividends amounting to $52.50 a share on 63,004 shares of preferred, erased sinking fund arrears of some $882,000. Meanwhile Certainteed began to nose slowly upward on the building wave, made a profit of $131,000 for the third quarter. To accelerate this rise by putting Montgomery Ward efficiency into Certainteed will...
...PHOENIX: THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE-Edited by Edward D. McDonald-Viking...
Thus, out of last week's ashes, little radical third parties could dream of rising in a new and greater incarnation. For the Union Party's ambitious triumvirate, Father Coughlin, Dr. Townsend and Preacher Smith, the bird indicated by the democracy last week was not the phoenix but the dodo...