Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Factories. Concurrently with a report that 150,000 were idle in Mos cow and were being kept alive on doles, came the news that the Bol shevik Government intends to permit business men to establish indus trial concerns. The only restrictions placed in a draft of the decree were that concerns employing or intending to employ more than 20 men must seek permission of the local Soviet to start operations. Those concerns, employing more than 200 men must make concessionary agreements with the Republic in which the concern is situate...
...Claude H. Foster founded the Gabriel Manufacturing Co. on the modest sum of $1,500. Wall Street was equally cognizant that that Company earned $1,086,195 last year, representing an interest of 72,413% on the original investment; that Mr. Foster was the sole owner of this thriving concern, which manufactured three-quarters of the world's automobile snubbers and shock-absorbing devices. But even Wall Street, which hears many strange things without a metaphorical flicker of its eyes, opened them wide in astonishment last week...
...Board, who had voted for the Dollar sale. The letter asked officially for the names of members of the Shipping Board who had opposed the sale and for their reasons. It seemed that the President disliked the idea of Government servants going into court in support of a private concern against a Government decision. He was about to apply the axe, said some...
...final day of the short session, an indecisive debate was held on whether, when any industry or other concern is nationalized, the owners should be recompensed or suffer expropriation. Animated discussion left the matter...
Nevertheless, it is believed that much of the purchased land will be used in an experimental attempt to grow rubber. This has long been a hobby of Harvey S. Firestone, President of the tire concern of that name and intimate friend of Henry Ford. Firestone has viewed with alarm the British crude rubber monopoly, and has urged the acquisition by this country of its own sources of supply. It is considered that Air. Ford's previous purchase of a large tract of land in Florida is linked with this more recent purchase, and that both indicate his intention...