Word: rebuilded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit Lumberman William Hoover Yawkey, celebrated his 30th birthday last February by buying the Boston Red Sox for $1,000,000. The club has been in or very near last place in the American League since 1924. Knowing Boston for an enthusiastic baseball town, Sportsman Yawkey set out to rebuild the team. Including last week's deals he spent $405,000 for new players. Also he replaced Marty McManus with Bucky Harris as manager. Result: dopesters conceded Boston a good chance to finish high next year. Philadelphia's Catcher Cochrane went to the Detroit Tigers (where...
...Atlas Tack's main plant is in Fairhaven, Mass., birthplace of the late Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers, who returned to rebuild and landscape his home town and incidentally to buy Atlas. But his family sold Atlas to some Boston bankers in 1920; rugs grew more popular than carpets and the tack trade languished. No dividends have been paid in 13 years and as many deficits as profits have been reported. It still makes 7,000,000 lb. of tacks a year, also brads and rivets, but its line of 24,000 items now includes metal buttons, shoe eyelets...
...Renaud. The Post will be reduced from eight columns to five, will become the second conservative tabloid in the U. S.* There was still a possibility that Publisher Martin's hustling rival, Publisher Julius David Stern of the Philadelphia Record, would buy the Post this week, try to rebuild its shrunken circulation (86,000 last March). By-Line Business...
...became president of Morris Plan Corp., the Manhattan organization with Morns Plan banks in over 100 cities making small "character loans" to working men. Now as president of General American Life, he gives up banking for its cousin insurance, returns beyond the Mississippi to rebuild success upon the plains...
...repair the vast, draughty stage, prop up the collapsing roof. To the rescue came Denver's able, elderly Art Patron Ann Evans, socialite president of Evans Investment Co., daughter of Colorado's second territorial Governor, John Evans. She soon made Central City a Denver socialite fad. To rebuild the Opera House she sold its original 750 broad-bottomed hickory chairs for $100 apiece, formed the Central City Opera House Association. Denver socialites got down on their hands & knees to scrub the floors, chip away caked dirt. Artist Allen Tupper True restored the murals and ceiling. Somebody contributed...