Word: concern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nemours & Co. that it had invested $14,000,000 of its $21,436,642 surplus profits in 114,000 shares of U. S. Steel common stock at an average of $122.80 per share, caused a stir in Wall Street. Current reports that Pierre Samuel du Pont, head of the concern and chairman of the board of directors of General Motors Corp., and his associates had bought many shares of U. S. Steel with private resources stirred mild rumors to the effect that Mr. du Pont was seeking Judge Elbert H, Gary's chairmanship in U. S. Steel. Bankers closely...
...TIME (July 18, p. 8) that the Boy Scout organization is connected with the army and navy. If you should read chapter one of the official handbook of the Boy Scouts of America, you would find that "the Boy Scout movement neither promotes nor discourages military training, its chief concern being the development of character and personal efficiency of teenage boys...
Because the new company is a subsidiary of Rosenbaum Grain Co. and will be managed by that concern, the Rosenbaums now dominate U. S. grain marketing, where for practically half a century the Armours dominated. Another feature is that the Chicago Elevator Properties, Inc., will handle practically the same business for which the wrecked Farmers Cooperative Grain Marketing Corp. (TIME, March 14) was organized three years...
...begins ? -ED. "Dilly Dow" That the umbrageous name of Cyril H. D. G. Dillington-Dowse, who pays his vitriolic tribute to the illiteracy of TIME in your issue of June 12, does not appear to be a Who's Who in merrie England should not give you concern. Let me clear the mystery. It appears perfectly plain from the internal evidence of his letter that as butler or doorman of the exclusive Authors Club of London he was tidying up the library and, after the members had departed, when he found TIME unconsumed in the fire place, sat himself...
...week ago and those of last week was the growing evidence of protest against the Federal Government. The argument is not so much that Congress should meet and quickly solve the problem of flood control. The people of Louisiana do expect that the next session of Congress will concern itself with the problem of preventing future floods, but they are most interested in having something done to alleviate the results of the flood that has just ruined them. What they most resent is the attitude, apparently prevailing at Washington, that the flood of 1927, while a terribly regrettable incident...