Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...averages two or three big post office contracts a year, rival contractors talked darkly of "Washington pull." Vice President Curtis indignantly denied that the superintendent at Newark was his relative "in any shape or form, near or distant" or that any of his family was interested in the Severin concern...
...Inland Waterways Corp. would be subject to indictment for issuing deceptive reports if it were a private concern. It practically amounts to using the mails to obtain money under false pretenses. The barge line fails to figure in its cost such items as attorney's fees, printing, franking, depreciation and the expense of operating the dams and locks it uses. If people knew the facts, they'd demand prosecution. I don't know how much bookkeeping they teach at West Point but they teach obeying orders. If General Ashburn is told to make the lines...
Trouble with rascally circulation men, most of whom are trained in the rough-&-tumble school of delivery trucks and loading platforms, is an occasional experience of many a U. S. newspaper publisher. It may be the circulation manager himself who is corrupt. If so. his sole concern is to ascertain how much circulation the publisher wants, to enhance his reputation as a hustler by getting it, foully if necessary. A threadbare device is for the circulation manager to raise the salary of a district man. ostensibly for showing bigger sales. The district man is allowed to pocket part...
Baron Goh's Tokyo Electric is not only the biggest concern in the field but also the biggest corporation in Japan. The great banking house of Mitsui has tremendous holdings in it. Serving the rich industrial area around Tokyo and Yokohama, it produces nearly as much power as New York Edison Co., more than Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Tokyo Electric probably has more customers than any strictly power & light company in the world...
...Jersey Representative Oscar Auf der Heide of West New York was elected president of $1,235,000 Elizabeth Brewing Corp. A successor to the old Peter Breidt brewery, Congressman Auf der Heide's concern has a real beer capacity of 200,000 bbl. per year...