Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public. Because its business is founded on secret formulas, and, more important, because its success depends upon having more efficient manufacturing processes than its competitors, many of whom are foreign, its secretive attitude is somewhat more understandable. But the heavy silence which shrouds Allied like some dark cloud is a matter of deeper policy than is explained by these facts. It is part and parcel of the company's very life...
Last week there was evidence of big events happening behind the dark cloud. Finally there emerged a terse announcement : Orlando Weber, president, has been granted a leave of absence. Weber. Orlando Franklin Weber is an impressive man. Six feet tall, massive, he has the poise of the physically strong and the alertness of the mentally agile. He likes to go to prizefights and he smokes big black cigars. Other businessmen fear him as sparring partners fear a champion. He is thought of as implacable-and fair. Mr. Weber's life has been as reticent as that of his company...
...handsome, congenial, likes to talk of the 1,800 purebred Leghorns and 20 Jerseys on his West Orange, N. J. farm. If it were known how much stock the Nichols family controls, what its relation with other big stockholders has been, the mystery of what went on behind the cloud might be solved. Another executive change occurred last week when Clinton Stephen Lutkins, who left Allied to join the New York Stock Exchange firm of R. W. Pressprich & Co., was recalled to become an Allied director and executive vice president...
...then $100,000,000 has also been mentioned. It is certain that the big Nitrate Cartel will fight hard to prevent Allied from extracting profits from its Hopewell investment; it is certain that in Hopewell Allied will muster every corporate war-machine which it has assembled behind the dark cloud...
...HAMLET HOOVER?Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel...