Word: concern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago $30,000 were spent here at Harvard in an attempt to induce Harvard professors to spread propaganda for public utilities." As an illustration of the exhorbitance of the rates charged by United States monopolies, Mr. Thomas showed that the rates in Ontario where the electric power concern is owned and operated by the government are 300 per cent lower than the rates in New York, both companies using Niagara Falls for their power...
When interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter, Professor Cabot made the following statement: "It is wholly to the interest of the public that some private concern have a monopoly of electric power. This concern is not in a position to exercise its control to the injury of the public. Men who are working for their own profit have, by the very nature of things, more interest in their job than men working for the government." He believes that the power monopoly can and does benefit the people, and this he is confident he can prove this afternoon...
...Chapman company is not a shipping concern, but sells bonds and real estate, and apparently Mr. Sheedy, the principal promoter, is the real purchaser of the ships. It looks like a promotion scheme, and I appeal to the Senate to stop this paper sale...
...members of the British House of Commons made an astounding insinuation last week-that the private Belgian concern, Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, which manufactures 90% of the world's radium under Belgian Government control, was restricting that valuable metal's production. The Belgian pitchblende mines, whence the related radium, polonium and lead are refined, are at Katanga, Belgian Congo. Those mines have far outdistanced the Jackinov mines in Czechoslovakia where Becquerel and the Curies got their first pitchblende supplies. Other, but at present little used, sources of radium are autunite deposits in Portugal, betafite deposits in Madagascar...
Consider, for example, a scene which last week took place in the offices of a concern called Standard Diamond Co., Manhattan. President of the company is one Peter B. Johnston. Manager of the company is one George E. Stillings. On the president's desk is a large brass nameplate: "P. B. Johnston...