Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge, blue-shuttered Italianate villa on Baltimore's exclusive North Charles Street, ten grave, rich men sat down one evening this week for a long talk about money. Headed by Daniel Willard, and including among their absent members Walter Sherman Gifford and Newton Diehl Baker, their concern for the moment was not with the state of railroads, of telephones, of law or even of politics. As the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins University, it was their solemn duty to approve a plan of campaign which, when launched next week, will serve notice on the nation that its pioneer...
Meantime the steel industry was concerned with another and more fundamental aspect of steel prices - the basing point system of quotations. This system is a modification of the old "Pittsburgh Plus" plan. Carefully nurtured by U.S. Steel's late Elbert Gary, Pittsburgh Plus worked on the simple principle of charging every buyer the price of steel in Pittsburgh, plus freight to his door, regardless of where the steel was made. Thus in one classic example soon after the War, when the Pittsburgh price was $40 per ton, a Chicago concern was paying $47.60 for steel made by its next...
Little faith in human nature has National Surety Corp., which insures companies against losses caused by dishonest employees, burglars, holdup-men and forgers. Little faith in corporate nature has many a stockholder and creditor of National Surety Co., predecessor concern of National Surety Corp. The Company did nicely calculating the odds on other people's employees' yielding to temptation, became the largest fidelity & surety insurance outfit in the U. S. In 1928 it took in $18,000,000 on its bonding business, made nearly $2,000,000 profit on investments, paid $1,500,000 in dividends. Meanwhile...
...Northland Transportation Co., this system prospered so sweetly it looked good to Great Northern Railway's then President Ralph Budd. Unlike other railmen, he considered busses not as rivals but as possible allies. In 1926 Great Northern therefore bought 80% of "Northland for $240,000. Leaving that concern largely in Great Northern's capable hands, Busman Wickman formed Greyhound Corp., a holding company for a baker's dozen of other buslines which he & associates proceeded to buy. By 1929 Greyhound straddled from coast to coast, and straddled on Greyhound was a top-heavy financial structure in which...
...member who concentrated in romance, John Clement, hockey player. There was another in Walter Lawrence who makes the Dionne quintuplets look sick by proving that a man born last July can handle the Senior year at Harvard with a minimum of difficulty. Richard M. Starr caused the greatest concern by announcing that his only home is Kirkland House. Orville H. Emmons reported that he was an "active" member of the Mountaineering Club...