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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Arthur E. Wilson, general employment manager, left Ford Motor Co. In eleven years he hired more than 300,000 Ford workers. No reason was announced for the Wilson withdrawal, though readers of an interview given out by Mr. Wilson after his departure noticed a discrepancy between the Ford and the Wilson ideas of employe ages. Men from 35 to 60 are the best workers, said Mr. Ford. Men from 30 to 50 are best men," said Mr. Wilson. "After 50," said he, "most men cannot stand the pace...
...ordered sold by Federal Judge George A. Carpenter of the Chicago District Court. Date of the sale will not be announced until priority between conflicting creditors has been settled. The Chicago & Alton is valued at approximately 100 million dollars. Prospective purchasers are said to be Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Samuel Insull...
...year, but after E. H. Harriman purchased it from T. D. Blackstone it grew more mortgages than it could carry. In 1889 it acquired a $45,000,000 mortgage, on which it has steadily paid interest. In 1900 came a $22,000,000 mortgage, held by Farmers Loan & Trust Co., Manhattan, and in 1912 an $18,000,000 mortgage held by United States Mortgage & Trust Co., Manhattan. No interest was paid on the $22,000,000 mortgage after the receivership of 1922 and no interest was paid by the $18,000,000 mortgage at any time. The Federal Court decided...
...when Radio Corp. was formed, it was organized solely for the purpose of transmitting wireless messages. At that time Great Britain, long dominant in cable communication, was also the outstanding leader in wireless. World's greatest wireless company was British Marconi (Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.) which controlled American Marconi (Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America), leading U. S. wireless concern. British Marconi was attempting to buy from General Electric Co. exclusive rights in the Alexanderson high-frequency alternator, which first made long-distance radio communication possible. From the Inter-Allied Conference on Radio at Paris...
...customer for the Alexanderson alternator. General Electric bought out the British Marconi company's interest in American Marconi, organized Radio Corp. of America to take over the business of American Marconi, which thereupon became defunct. Associated with General Electric were American Telephone & Telegraph, United Fruit Co., and Westinghouse Electric, of which only Westinghouse remains an important factor. Thus U. S. wireless became strong and vigorous, developed a three-second trans-Atlantic service, carried many a code message for many an efficient corporation...