Word: concern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...share on the $180,287,046 of $100 par common stock outstanding. The company is in excellent financial condition-liabilities $39,829,694, assets $270,271,884. Its principal financial activity during the year was the distribution to shareholders of its holdings in Electric Bond & Share Co., a concern which controls directly or indirectly some 100 electric power, street railway and gas companies between Canada and the Gulf and between the Atlantic and the Mississippi. Its relations to General Electric were so generally criticized that the parent company of its own volition cut it off (TIME...
...What a whale of a difference just a few cents make"), Piedmonts, Chesterfields ("They Satisfy"), Masterpiece Smoking; P. Lorillard Co. (B. L. Belt, President)?Murads, Helmars, Deities, Moguls, Between the Acts; Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc. (R. M. Ellis, President)?Philip Morris, Marlboro, English Oval. This last concern is affiliated with the American Tobacco Products Co. (T. B. Yuille, President), which controls the Surburg Co. (Zig-Zags), Stephano Bros. (Rameses), and the United Cigar...
...second test I have called the policy question. If an established concern has been selling over a period of years in a particular manner, or to a particular group of consumers: has sold successfully, and has employed salesmen who have enjoyed prosperity during their employment, the job, moos with the second test. If a concern has been marketing through the retail trade and suddenly decides that it is going after its prospects on a direct consumer basis the success of that venture is problematical. If a concern that is little known is trying to market, its products direct...
...third test is one which may be called consumer value and consumer utility. It will probably be true that if an established, well-rated concern has been selling over a period of years to a market which has favorably reacted to the presentation of its goods, that those same goods will offer a high degree of consumer value and utility, otherwise they would not have endured. This test, however, must be made. The goods that are offered must be offered at a fair price, and by a fair price I mean one that is not inconsistent with the value which...
...tutorial system is something altogether apart from that. It does not concern itself with seeing that a young man learns the facts that are given in a lecture course. It says to him this: "You have elected to major in one subject, say English literature. Very well, we shall give you as a tutor a man who can lead you pleasantly and profitably in that field. He will show you how to get the most from lectures, from the library, from all the resources of the University. If your tutor sees that you are in earnest, you will be relieved...