Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notoriously miserable has been the record of investment trusts as a group. Notably excellent has been the record of one trust: Atlas Utilities Corp. Last week Atlas, still little known beyond the purlieus of Wall Street, acquired control of two well known investment trusts, and with them, management contracts...
...deals marked the eighth and ninth acquisitions made by Atlas since last October. President of the company is a quiet, modest man of 39 who is considered one of the ablest men in the country yet is as obscure as his company. He is Floyd Bostwick Odium (pronounced: Oddlum) whose other chief interests are his vice-presidency of Electric Bond & Share and his vice-chairmanship of its big unit. American & Foreign Power Co. Seldom in the public prints, he was written up two years ago for conducting the "most expensive telephone call," London-New York, 95 min., $1,425. Slim...
Abruptly, Royal Boss Reza created the Persian Foreign Trade Department, gave it monopoly powers. Last week in Stockholm a swarthy Representative of the P. F. T. D. let important contracts to eleven Swedish firms, among them Swedish General Electric, Atlas Diesel (engines), Nydquist & Holm (locomotives) and the Gota Shipyards. Persia's blanket purchase totaled $2,680,000, represents chiefly structural steel, rails and other equipment for modernizing Persia's transport system...
...turned on its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides...
American Rolling Mills 730 663 D American Steel Foundries 1,019 66 Anaconda Wire & Cable 59 161 Art Metal Construction 157 30 D Atlas Tack 22 D 26 D Barnsdall (oil) 1,420 1 Columbian on Carbon 810 560 Commercial Credit 1,087 865 Container Corp. 135 124 D Crosley Radio 696 D 471 D de Long Hook & Eye 38 48 General American Tank Car 1,703 1,204 Grand Union 235 249 Hayes Body 106 D 93 D Long Bell Lumber 305 D 700 D Ludlum Steel 49 D 16 Mack Trucks 490 178 D Maytag (washing machines...