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...touch & go to keep ATCO breathing. One example: AMCO ran short of cash to keep its subsidiaries operating, so it borrowed $1,400,000 from AVCO. AVCO, in turn, ran short, so it borrowed $500,000 from ATCO. ATCO then sold its interest in Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp., and later some new stock and was then able to help out AVCO, which was then better able to help AMCO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Everything, Inc. | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...order to take advantages of the plan, a student must report to the checker in the House where he is now eating breakfast. The Dining Hall management will then be notified. Dean Hanford made it clear, however, that the privilege applies to breakfast only, and that it must be used regularly, with no shifting from House to Union and back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARD DECISION EASES YARD BREAKFAST CRISIS | 3/26/1946 | See Source »

...Miscellany. Correct spelling of Welsh town is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch. (Checker got confused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Socialism invaded the Empire. Mustached, square-shouldered Frederick John Burrows, onetime railway porter, World War I sergeant major and 1942-44 president of Britain's railwaymen, was appointed Governor of Bengal. Burrows' sal ary jumps from $832 as a railway checker to $36,000 a year, and up to $176,040 in allowances. He leaves his six-room Herefordshire cottage for a palace in Calcutta. He and his wife took the news in stride. Said Dora Beatrice Burrows: "We shan't be any different. We are working people and always will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Porter to Palace | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...Moines: Need color for story on Iowa Packing Co. walkout. What are duties of sausage stuffer? What is a check sealer? Or is it a scale checker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 5, 1945 | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

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