Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What gave Ratliff and his friends their bargaining power was the quiet support of marble-faced old (74) Harold L. (Harry) Stuart, head of Chicago's Halsey, Stuart & Co. and one of the country's top financiers. It was Stuart who floated $6,000,000 in loans to swing the Enquirer deal and who still holds $1,500,000 in debentures, which are convertible into stock. The stock would give its holders working control of the paper...
...same Hank O'Day. This time O'Day surprisingly called Merkle out, ruled the game a tie. The Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance Cubs went on to win the playoff and the pennant-and took the World Series from Hughie Jennings' Detroit Tigers (Ty Cobb & Co.) four games...
...businesses," said Edward Eagle Brown, board chairman of Chicago's First National Bank, "would have cut back on their expansion plans." What Ike's "affirmative" answer did was to convince U.S. industry that governmental encouragement of free enterprise would continue. Said Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Board Chairman P. W. Litchfield: "Our economy does better when the political climate is favorable to giving the American system of free enterprise a full chance to produce. The three Eisenhower years have provided this improved climate, and business has responded by producing and selling more goods, hiring more people, paying higher wages...
...world's biggest privately owned power producer is American Gas & Electric Co., a seven-state utility network whose twelve major plants turn 10 million tons of coal a year into power for nearly 5,000,000 people from Lake Michigan to the Tennessee Valley. Last week AGE announced a program to grow still bigger; it will spend $700 million to boost its 4,000,000 kw. capacity (enough to light 7,000,000 homes for a year) by 65% in the next five years, the most ambitious five-year expansion ever tackled by a private U.S. utility. The program...
...putting up a $1,500,000 plant in Phoenix; Westinghouse is building in Youngwood, Pa. and Sprague Electric in Concord, N.H. ; Philco bought a 100,000-sq.-ft. factory in Spring City, Pa., RCA is moving into a 120,000-sq.-ft. factory at Bridgewater, N.J.; Texas Instruments Co. is planning a plant on a 250-acre site near Dallas; and Raytheon is expanding its Newton, Mass, facilities...