Word: co
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operate such long lines very high gas pressures will have to be used, pressures which hitherto have been unfeasible, due to impossibility of preventing leakage at the innumerable joints in a pipe several score miles long. Announcement was made however by the new syndicate, called the Ruhr Gas Co., that development of a new pipe welding process has made it possible to operate without undue leakage lines several hundred miles in length...
...Pioneer Thompson sold his interest in the J. Walter Thompson Co.; retired. Last week Pioneer Thompson died. Today the advertising company he fostered is one of America's three biggest.* Its president is Stanley Resor. Its vice president is John Broadus Watson, author of "Homing and Related Activities of Birds." who applies to advertising his profound knowledge of behaviorism, plots shrewd campaigns for Fleischmann's Yeast, Pennsylvania R. R., Lux, Maxwell House Coffee...
...long is their service to science and industry is indicated by the average of their ages-74. Younger are the two historic exponents of commercial aviation, youngest of great industries. Orville Wright, at 57, is seven years the senior of Glenn Hammond Curtiss. Charles Michael Schwab (Bethlehem Steel Co.) and Julius Rosenwald (Sears Roebuck & Co.) are 66. Tiremaker Harvey Samuel Firestone...
...forged beyond their fields into larger industrial problems. The Ford plant in Dearborn is held the world's most exhaustive and interesting experiment in mechanistic production. Establishing a plantation in Liberia, Tiremaker Firestone attempts to readjust the world's rubber economics. As head of Sears Roebuck & Co., Julius Rosenwald directs a merchandising policy which threatens to bring many a U. S. manufacturer to terms...
...remained to be invited to the Conference of Major Industries. Meat-packers announced a list of seven speakers who should interpret, jointly and severally, "The Current Situation." Impressive were names, titles, themes, as follows: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President, American Construction Council (Building and Construction); Harold Higgins Franklin Swift, Swift & Co. (Meat-packing); Myron Charles Taylor, Chairman Finance Committee, U. S. Steel Corp. (Iron and Steel); Charles Franklin Kettering, President, General Motors Research Corp. (Automobiles); Walter Sherman Gifford, President A. T. & T. (Communication); Frank Brett Noyes, President, The Associated Press (Printing and Publishing); Charles Edwin Mitchell, President, National City Bank (Finance...