Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bethlehem had excellent reasons for wanting Youngstown. Superficially, the formation of Republic threatens its position as No. 2 steel company. Also, superficially. Bethlehem's irrepressible Charles Michael Schwab has never completely forgotten his old ambition to create a steel concern bigger than U. S. Steel...
...merger with Bethlehem two years ago. Last week he at first refused to comment on the proposed merger, but finally declared it "ideal," although last December he was quoted as favorable to a merger with Republic. Even the combination of Grace and Campbell did not, however, seem to concern the third figure, Cyrus Stephen Eaton...
...charter was granted to the New York Gas Light Co., which later became Consolidated, making the present company the third oldest illuminating gas concern in the U. S. Its expansion has been regular rather than phenomenal, but in recent years the pace has been accelerated. A power in Con. Gas finance is Nicholas F. Brady and a power in its operation is George Bruce Cortelyou, president of Con. Gas since 1909. Once Mr. Cortelyou was a stenographer in the Federal Court of New York, then a Roosevelt cabinet member and national G. 0. P. chairman. A subway rider, he travels...
...salesmen would visit him, sell him many more shares of stock. Even less legitimate than most offers, however, is that of the Wrigley Pharmaceutical Co., selling stock and a ''spearmint toothpaste." For although the company's president signs himself W. W. Wrigley, neither he nor the concern are connected with potent William Wrigley Jr. Co. of Chicago...
Surprised and delighted, said he: "I didn't even know he was being considered for the place until we got word from friends who read the morning papers. . . . Our greatest concern when Karl was a boy was that he would never be interested in anything but play. He had a football suit when he was in the grades and it seemed as though he wore it most of the time...