Word: co
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president of one of the largest corporations in the U. S. The Senators were lucky because they had the great industrialist before them as a witness in his own behalf. He had resigned (for as long as necessary) from the $100,000-per-year presidency of International Harvester Co. ($350,000,000) to accept President Hoover's appointment as $12,000-per-year chairman of the Federal Farm Board. The Senators had the power to question him closely in deciding whether he was fit for the job. It was the chance of a session if not of a Senatorial...
Cotton. To the Georgia Cotton Growers' Co-operative Association was voted a loan...
...many a U. S. investor this was vital news because in 1927 Dillon, Read & Co. painted out that the Deutsche Bank is closely connected with most of the leading German industrial and commercial enterprises. Not only did Dillon, Read sell $25,000,000 Deutsche Bank notes to U. S. investors, but some of the stock of this and of the Disconto has been bought with U. S. money...
...This year we have really learned the art of war," he shouted from the edge of the reviewing stand. "Our achievements have been stupendous. One of the great differences between our annual maneuvers and those of our neighbors is that ours takes place midst a friendly working class which coöperates with our troops...
...thrice-built home at Spring Green seemed a rocky outcropping of the hill itself. 2) Buildings (factories, theatres, hotels) should interpret the spirit as well as suit the use of their occupancies. This has created blocky, mechanistic, "modernistic" structures. His most representative factory building is that of the Larkin Co. at Buffalo; his best hotel the Imperial at Tokyo, famed for octagonal copper bathtubs and "skyscraper" furniture. People for whom he builds homes yield to his artistic bullying. His commissions-and therefrom the profits on which Frank Lloyd Wright, Inc. can count on-enable him to maintain offices at Chicago...