Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DUBLIN DAYS?L. A. G. Strong? Boni and Liveright ($1.25). A small and pleasant posy of Irish herbs and flowers?poems lacking the conventional oh-so-damn-Gaelic concern with the Sidhe, the Bear without Bristles. Uncle White Seagull and the rest of the melancholy paraphernalia of minor Irish bards. It is evident that the author has read James Stephens, but he has his own individual way of speaking, clear, fresh and cool as the sound of a country brook. Poems for even a reviewer to keep and reread...
Superficially it would appear that the Standard Oil, which was dissolved into 38 separate companies in 1911 by order of the U. S. Supreme Court, was an incoherent concern. Among the disjuncta membra of 1911 are the Anglo-American Oil Co., the Atlantic Refining Co., Borne, Serymser Co., Buckeye Pipe Line Co., Crescent Pipe Line Co., Cumberland Pipe Line Co., Eureka Pipe Line Co., Galena-Signal Oil Co., Illinois Pipe Line Co., Indiana Pipe Line Co., National Transit Co., National Transit Pump and Machinery Co., New York Transit Co., Northern Pipe Line Co., Ohio Oil Co., Mid-Kansas...
Past History. The origin of the Standard Oil monopoly, for practical monopoly it still is, was the foundation of a refinery in Cleveland by an Englishman named Samuel Andrews in 1862. John D. Rockefeller invested $4,000 in the venture. In 1867 the concern was organized under the name of Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler. In 1870 it was incorporated as the Standard Oil Com-pany of Ohio, with a capitalization of $1,000,000. The parties interested were John D. Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler, Samuel Andrews, Steven V. Harkness and William Rockefeller...
...scheme was worked out whereby the railroads gave the Standard Oil secret rebates. This was done through the notorious South Improvement Co., a concern organ-ized by Rockefeller, which bought a charter with the right to carry on any kind of business in any country and in any way. The rebates were secured by arrangements with Vanderbilt and Clark of the New York Central, Jay Gould and General McClellan of the Erie, and Thompson and Scott of the Pennsylvania...
...part it may be fairly said to lack the charm and grace with which Anatole France, for instance, recounts his early years?the manner is solid rather than suave?much of the description, were it written of a fictitious character, would lack the fortuitous interest it attains from its concern with Sudermann himself...