Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need is most. The money is from the estate of the late Mrs. Seipp, wealthy brewer's widow, Dr. Schmidt's mother-in-law. Also, Dr. Schmidt (born Chicago, 1863) is the leading German-American of the Middle West, the great presider when distinguished guests from the Central Countries visit here...
...would save a great deal of translating if English-writing dramatists could learn of the debonair didos that presumably occur in Vienna and Budapest after the curtains are drawn. But to most English-writing dramatists sex remains the cue for either a problem play or an Oriental extravaganza. Therefore central Europe is combed for playwrights akin to the gently libidinous Ferenc Molnar. One of the latest combings is Lili Hatvany, authoress of The Love Duel...
...Nickel Plate argument runs somewhat as follows: The I. C. C. order told Nickel Plate, New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio to dispose of their Wheeling stock. The New York Central and the B. & O. anticipated this order by transferring their stock to Allegheny Corp., Van Sweringen holding company. Objection might be taken to joint control of the Wheeling by three roads, but its control by one road is quite another matter...
...board boy" from his $15-a-week job, mechanically marks up prices as swiftly as the new tickers, giving five quotations for each stock: the last night's close, day's opening, high, low and latest. As the ticker registers a quotation, an operator in the central station of the Teleregister types it on a keyboard. Each depression of the key sends an electric impulse over the wires to the brokers' boards. Western Union, 60% stockholders in the Teleregister Corp., believes it can cope with a 10,000,000-share...
When the textile industry declined and power sites began to be cheap, into New England from the midwest went a little man used to doing things in a big way - Samuel Insull, public utility pope of Chicago. His operations centred at first in Maine, where securities of his Central Maine Power & Light have become popular legal tender and his henchmen, Walter S. Wyman and Guy P. Gannett, are ruling powers. Mr. Wyman is Water Power. Mr. Gannett, a cousin of Chain-Publisher Frank Gannett of Rochester, Syracuse, Brooklyn, Hartford, Albany, Utica, Elmira, Newburgh-Beacon (N. Y.), Plainfield (N. J.), Ithaca...