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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Natural Gas. Of 15 natural gas companies furnishing 16 billion cubic feet of gas each year to 32 communities in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana-Southwest Gas Utilities Corp. was formed. President is Charles G. Laskey, bland, onetime prospector of the district served...
...nightmare at this time last year to the millions who live in its lower basin, the Mississippi River is a nightmare to President Coolidge now. Last week, alarmed by reports that the Flood Control bill, which the Senate shoved through last fortnight, might cost the U. S. a billion or $1,500,000,000, the President sent for Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee, his Flood Control spokesman. Mr. Madden was sick abed but up he got and to the White House he went. When Mr. Madden emerged from the conference he said the President...
...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe is the richest of U. S. railroads. Its assets are approximately a billion and a quarter dollars. It has 2,324,095 shares of common stock outstanding. Great institutions as well as little people own that stock. It yields them now $23,240,950 each year...
...copper-companies in such a way that Anaconda Copper Mining Co. bought the subsidiaries of the Amalgamated, and after a proper interval he became president, then chairman, of Anaconda. During little more than ten years he has built the company's assets up to more than half a billion dollars. It produces 15% of the world's copper each year, and is the world's largest producer of silver...
Last week, the ship-news reporter of the New York Times, went down New York Bay, boarded the incoming S. S. Majestic, examined the passenger list, sought interviews. Joseph Paul Day, Manhattan realtor, "who has auctioned off more than a billion dollars worth of real estate during his career," was the hero of the article the newsgatherer subsequently wrote. "Among his fellow passengers were H. E. Mansville of Johns-Mansville, Inc., W. R. Timken of the Timken Roller Bearing Co. and Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco...