Word: co
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More extraordinary, the announcement that J. P. Morgan & Co. so far as it knew had taken no position ? that "speaking generally" its power companies were believed to be abstaining from intervening in the question of public ownership -won the approval of Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer of Manhattan; Mr. Untermeyer, famed orchid-wearing epicure, son of a "Virginia planter who served in the Confederate Army" (his paragraph in Who's Who) is not a man ordinarily to be found aligned with the House of Morgan and the power companies. Now 71, he has been an active lawyer for more than...
...biggest-money-making corporation. For, last week, General Motors discussed with Radio Corp. plans for using some of its available manufacturing equipment to turn out sets under R. C. A. patents. Also, last week, General Motors picked up a small ($13,000,000) electrical-equipment concern, Northeast Electrical Co. of Rochester. Already, indeed, General Motors makes radios. All new Cadillacs have aerials in their bodies and, for $150 extra, Cadillac dealers will install a receiving set built by Delco-Remy, which is a G. M. subsidiary...
These and other hotels in Hamilton, Ont., Erie, Toronto and Niagara Falls, which together can supply 10,351 people each with a room to sleep in, were linked financially by Dillon, Read & Co. into United International Hotels, Inc. Last year's combined receipts from sleepers and eaters in these hotels...
...Singer Manufacturing Co. makes more than 1,500,000 sewing machines of 3,000 different types each year in its nine factories.? Its 10,000 stores and 60,000 salesmen cover the world to sell the machines turned out by its 28,000 factory hands. Its symbolic red S is familiar in Germany, South Africa, China. While its officers labor in Manhattan's once tallest Singer Building, its woodsmen chop down millions of board feet of lumber in its Canadian and southern U. S. forests...
Pool. Merger-shouters predicting a combination of Johns-Manville Corp., Insulite Co. and U. S. Gypsum Co. were wrong last week. Instead, both Johns-Manville Corp. and U. S. Gypsum Co. entered into marketing and distributing pools with Insulite Co., remained competitors of each other. The Manville-Insulite agreement is that Johns-Manville Corp. will use and market Insulite's rigid wall board, insulated against heat (used for partitions, kennels, stage props, mirror backs, outhouses) west of the Alleghanies. The Gypsum-Insulite agreement is to merge their distributing resources in all parts of the world since gypsum, like Insulite...