Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Journal by Dr. Russell E. Marker and his associate, Thomas S. Oakwood, of Pennsylvania State College. From yeast Researchers Marker & Oakwood obtained ergosterol, an organic compound related to Vitamin D-producing cholesterol. From an ergosterol derivative, which they acetylated, oxidized with chromic acid, hydrolized and distilled, they built up the white crystals of theelin...
...Kimball is Baldwin Piano Co., which also consigns products to dealers, is consequently called in the trade "that banking house." In third place is Winter & Co. Winter goes in for low-priced pianos, stands near the top in unit production. One of its models is a "pianette" at $99.50 built to compete with Japanese pianos, which cost $4 to make, sell in the U. S. for $50. Aeolian American Corp. has been slipping in the past few years but still holds fourth place in dollar volume with such big names as Chickering and Knabe...
Under the SEC microscope last week was Equity Corp., which was built up from other trusts, some with sorry records indeed, but now run by David Milton, son-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr. Not concerned last week with Mr. Milton's management was SEC but with earlier history, notably the methods by which a young lawyer from Baltimore had acquired, with virtually no investment on his part, a handful of broken-down trusts early in Depression. Putting them together as Equity Corp., he sold out to Mr. Milton in 1932 at a profit of $750,000. This...
...Utilities Power & Light Harley Clarke built along classic lines. The operating companies, serving 488 communities in Britain and 587 in the U. S. and Canada stemmed down from Utilities Power & Light Corp., a traditional holding company. Working control of this holding company, however, was held by a super-holding company called Public Utilities Securities Corp. ("Pusco"). On top of Pusco was a private super-super holding company, and on top of that was Harley Lyman Clarke...
...from the 15th to the 19th Century, impressed him deeply, inspired him to serious study of their artistic achievements, their magnificent, detailed bas-reliefs and sculptured towers. The central buildings of Angkor Wat, a mile square, rising almost as high as the tower of Notre Dame in Paris and built about the same time, he decided must be one of the loveliest pieces of architecture in the world, the most perfect building, except for Christopher Wren's Greenwich Hospital, that he had ever seen...