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Last week Tri-Utilities Corp., a $400,000,000 holding company for public utilities, went into "friendly receivership." Big as it was, great as is its fall, it was a young company built by a young man. On March 4, 1929, while bands and flags and soldiers led Herbert Hoover to his oath of office, young George Lewis Ohrstrom, 35 then, was interested in a less publicized matter. On that historic day he was occupied with incorporation details at Wilmington, Del. Birthday of Hoover Prosperity, it was also birthday...
Neither Mr. Hoover nor young Mr. Ohrstrom could look forward to Oct. 29, 1929 and the days beyond that day. Children study about the properties under President Hoover in geography books. Stockholders also needed geographies to study the properties under President Ohrstrom. They are almost coextensive. The properties of Tri-Utilities' four big subsidiaries (and their subsidiaries) extend from waterworks for householders in Flatbush to power lines in the Arizona desert, from mains of natural gas in Atlanta and Birmingham to acres of gas wells in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. All were listed by President Ohrstrom's accountants...
...away from Detroit at the start of the 6,000-mi. flight but who crashed into a hillside at Yorkville, Ohio. Lieut. Harry L. Russell, winner of the trophy last year, took the lead again (by points based on efficiency) early in the race with his Ford tri-motor; at half-mark he was well ahead of another Ford piloted by James H. Smart...
After winning the National championship, Doeg married, set to work on his father-in-law's Newark, N. J. Evening News, announced that he would probably play little tennis in 1931 except to defend his title at Forest Hills. Clifford Sutter last week was winning the Tri-State Tour- nament in Memphis, Tennessee. The other two, Shields and Wood, together with Henri Cochet; John Van Ryn; Jean Borotra, who airplaned back to Paris for business between matches; Bunny Austin, balloon-trousered British Davis Cup player; George Lyttleton Rogers, a big Irishman with a hooked nose; Jiro Satoh, the champion...
...California's outstanding citizens," was what San Francisco's Mayor James Rolph Jr. called James A. Talbot of Richfield Oil Co. in 1928. An outstanding act of Outstander Talbot had just been the offering of his private tri-motor airplane to Mayor Rolph and his visiting friend, Mayor James John Walker...