Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporation which TVA evangels never include in their critical remarks about power corporations is the TVA itself. Like RFC, FDIC, Commodity Credit Corp., TVA is Government corporation in business. In its buying and selling, making contracts, filing suits, its status as an incorporated concern relieves it of much red tape. Last week Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, who used to be top officer of TVA Corp., reminded his onetime colleagues, Directors Harcourt Morgan and David Lilienthal, that corporations have to take the bad along with the good, as Messrs. Harcourt Morgan and Lilienthal have often reminded the power corporations...
Second Try. The U. S. business of this then minute English concern had been taken over by Tobacco Products Corp. in 1919. In 1923 Rube Ellis was put in charge of its three brands-English Ovals, Oxford Blues and Cambridge-the first a blend and the others Turkish. Mr. Ellis promptly launched Marlboro, a 20? cigaret which, with the benefit of an ivory tip, has sold a solid 500,000,000 a year since. Then he lured McKitterick back from a seven-year vacation in Europe and the two quietly began buying Philip Morris stock. In 1931 they had control...
That four different systems of examinations-by the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Comptroller of the Currency, and the States-bothered bankers was only one of the reasons the Administration wanted them unified. Of more immediate concern was a belief that the various stiff restrictions on bank investments might explain the fact that today U. S. banks have $2,780,000,000 in excess reserves sitting idle. This second idea of Mr. Roosevelt's did not appear until last fortnight. Until then a committee of underlings had been absorbed solely in the technicalities of unifying the existing...
...during the past decade. . . . American business is today confronted . . . with new social responsibilities . . . with new concepts. . . ." The company's principal purpose, Mr. Brown added, would continue to be the making of profits (for 1937: $4,100,909). Observers who have had their eye on Mr. Brown's concern for social responsibilities (TIME, March 21) put Dr. Jessup's appointment down as a well-meaning gesture, waited to see what the practical result...
...went to the East Indies, worked for the Netherlands Trading Society in Deli, Medan and Penang, learned how to make money for the Society, and quit to make money for himself. His next job was with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was head of a small concern with a large name, which was: The Royal Dutch Co. for the Working of Petroleum Wells in the Dutch East Indies...