Word: charter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...value of close to two million dollars. Last week, Cocoa Exchange transactions reached a day's high of 627 lots, breaking a record of three years' standing. A seat on the Cocoa Exchange was sold for $6,000, a rapid advance over the $300 at which charter memberships were priced in 1925. Thus had cocoa a large and busy week...
Although it has been denied that Ford of France will be a subsidiary of Ford of England, the fact remains that Ford Motor Co., Ltd., of England, was given charter rights to market Fords throughout Europe (except in Soviet Russia), in Asia Minor and in certain parts of Africa. Ford companies were to be acquired in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Sweden and Finland, and unsuccessful attempts were made to secure a concession from the Soviet government (TIME, March 4). Ford of England was to hold 60% of the stocks of European Ford companies; the other...
...Babcock, then chairman of the Mutual Life Insurance Co., was shown that the bank's old charter was very broad, and hence useful. Quickly he reorganized the guaranty & indemnity company as a guaranty trust company. Its capital then (1891) was $100,000, its surplus $720, its undivided profits nil, its deposits nil. Six months later capital was $2,000,000, deposits more than $1,000,000. Thereafter (the corporate name was changed to Guaranty Trust Co. in 1895) growth was sedate, based on insurance policy loans and railroads trusteeships. That is, until Morgan Partner Davison took hold...
...miserably distracted in their times of concourse", the College building not half completed, and the legacy of John Harvard almost exhausted. Dunster left Harvard small indeed and slenderly endowed, but well provided with buildings, conducted with dignity and efficiency by young and enthusiastic teachers, corporate independence secured by a charter, discipline regulated by College statutes. Yet the manner of his leaving was tragic, and almost a century elapsed before the College recovered the prestige it had enjoyed in Dunster...
...Fomona, Calif., 75 dwarfs met together to form the Small Men's Association of America, comprising only human beings less than four feet high, of which they became charter members. Midgets, little men who are not, like dwarfs, in some way stunted or deformed, could become associate members. There was no reason for forming the association except that the dwarfs wished to band themselves together...