Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warehouses in which 15,000,000 gallons of liquor are stored. The liquor is private property held for legal sale as medicine. In bonded storage the U. S. stands stern guard over it, with agents to gauge its quantity, to test its quality, to control its withdrawal for drug-store purpose. Last week its was revealed in Chicago that some 50,000 gallons of such closely-guarded liquor had somehow gotten out of government bondage. It was the biggest "escape" of its kind in the history of Prohibition...
...Society of Tammany in Manhattan makes a great to-do over Independence Day. On that day last week the city's Democratic politicians crowded into their hall to hear New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt call for a new "Declaration of Independence" against "Centralized Industrial Control" in the form of corporation mergers...
...wish to have her status as an independent kingdom confirmed by membership in the League. Equally aware, however, is the League of Great Britain's strong opposition to this step, for Egypt, which Britain relinquished as a Protectorate in 1922 but which she still maintains the right to control because of the Suez Canal, is the chief route to India, vital artery of British trade...
Eaton. Persistent through denials was the rumor that Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland steelman and banker, had purchased working control of United Light & Power Co., midwestern utility with $500,000,000 assets and 1928 gross earnings of $89,000,000. The report was that the Eaton purchase was from the Koppers-Mellon interests. Reports also mentioned the Insull, Bonbright and North American Power & Light interests as United Light & Power purchasers. Cyrus Eaton is called "rich as Mellon" by Clevelanders. Whenever anything really big seems to be stirring in Northern Ohio, rumors mention his name. Last week's Eaton utility rumor...
Gary Phone. Supreme in the U. S. telephone field is Bell, subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph. Supreme among independent phone companies became the Theodore Gary interests of Kansas City, which last week bought control of Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Co. of St. Paul, Dakota Central Telephone Co. of Aberdeen, S. Dak., and eight other companies. Tri-State operates about 165,000 telephones, earns some $1,200,000 per annum, is valued at between...