Word: ripleyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week over a CBS network Robert Ripley reunited after 40 years a mother and her long-lost son. Having accomplished this minor miracle, Ripley changed the pace of his Believe It Or Not show, abandoned hearts & flowers to hold radio's first network fur auction. Purpose of the auction was to raise funds for four Norwegians who fled from their Nazi-controlled homeland last July in a 38-ft. pilot sloop, pulled into New York City 54 days later with no assets save their boat and a platina...
With Navy support, the chief owners of Cramp's-Harriman interests, holders of over 90% of the mortgages-got under way. Tall, blue-eyed, soft-spoken Banker Joseph Pierce Ripley of Harriman, Ripley & Co. settled with skeptical councilmen for $100,000. The Navy settled a $1,000,000 financing lien for another $100,000. Ripley announced a plan whereby the mortgages ($5,338,000, including interest) will be exchanged for about 100,000 shares of common stock in a new Cramp's Shipbuilding Co. Another 100,000 shares will be publicly sold to raise...
ROBERT L. RIPLEY New York City...
...Odditorium is Ripley's, believe...