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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patron of chemistry in the United States" (see p. 48). Chemistry Patron Garvan was also among those who have given a scholarship fund ($1,000 annually) to help the Johns Hopkins plan. The scholarships are to be established in every State. Other contributors so far include: Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (Ohio), Bill Raskob Memorial Foundation (Delaware),* General Motors Corp. (Michigan), Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp. (West Virginia). The Edison "Genius Hunt" consists in finding in each State the high school student who has most distinguished himself in scientific subjects during the present school year. In August, Mr. Edison will give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Selection of Fittest | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...high figure resulted chiefly from frenzied trading in one issue. Opening the day with a 35,000-share order, Arkansas Natural Gas Corp.-almost inactive for months-turned over 516,400 shares in the day's trading. Arkansas Natural Gas is a subsidiary of Cities Service Co.-unique Henry L. Doherty being president of both companies. A. N. G. supplies Little Rock, Ark., with gas; owns some 635 miles of gas mains and transports some 35 billion cu. ft. of gas per year. In addition to its 16,000 acres of proven gas leases, however, it also controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Arkansas Natural | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Otis-Mather. Famed Cleveland brokers are Otis & Co.; famed Otis & Co. partner is Cyrus S. Eaton, of the Congressional Batons.? When in Manhattan, Broker Eaton stops at the Biltmore, takes the Presidential Suite. When in Northfield. Ohio, he stays at his summer home (the summer home of Tireman Seiberling is also in Northfield). When in England (which he visited last summer) he rented a. spacious estate, entertained on royal scale. He is a collector of books on sports and supports the Northfield Hunt Club. From faces, Broker Eaton likes to deduce character, studies physiognomies with attentive eye. Broker Eaton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: One Big Union | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Last week Broker Eaton's steel interests were expanded to include an "alliance" with the iron interests of another famed Clevelander, William G. Mather, whose Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. joined the large group of "Eaton interests." Oldest mining company in the Lake Superior region. Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. iron ore properties ranked with the richest in the country. Its subsidiary properties include a railroad, a fleet of 24 ships, a power company, bituminous coal deposits, and several hundred thousand acres of timber lands. Thus Broker Eaton's various steel companies were assured of ample raw material, and Cleveland's Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: One Big Union | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Eaton represents New Jersey; Cousin William R. Eaton, lover of card-tricks, represents Colorado. with Lewis H. Brown, both formerly of Montgomery Ward. So strongly was the predicted merger looked upon as a Morgan maneuver that when, last week. President G. D. Crabbs of Cincinnati's Philip Carey Mfg. Co., showed himself in the Morgan Manhattan offices, the rumors promptly added the Carey name to the merger list. With American Radiator for the heating. Standard Sanitary for the plumbing, and Johns-Manville and Carey for the roofing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: One Big Union | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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