Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world, and that subsequent additions and improvements made by this company at a cost of over $300,000 have considerably improved its position in this respect. 3) That the "onetime Army flier (Benjamin Frederick Castle) who went into banking was, in fact, the former Chief of the Control Board of the U. S. Army Air Service, Personal Representative of the Chief of the U. S. Army Air Service on the Liquidation Committee in France, Air Attache to the U. S. Embassy at Paris (the first ever appointed to such a post), Governor of the Aero Club of America, Treasurer...
...President Hoover announced that if Congressmen from the lower Mississippi Basin were willing to assume responsibility by requesting it, he was willing to delay Mississippi flood control work in that region...
...bank of the river, the state owns the river bottom to the international boundary, that the state, not the power company will develop power there. In Washington Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana, prime foe of the "power trust," declared that the merger was a long step toward unified control of the power possibilities of the nation to which the people are "not only indifferent but apathetic." He added: "It is an ominous tale as well to the 40,000,000 people marketing their products through the ports of the Great Lakes and who look for speedy development...
...company. The margarine company was Margarine Unie, a Dutch concern which, with its British affiliate, Margarine Union, is Europe's largest margarine producer. The soap company was Lever Bros., which, with some 200 associated companies, is world's largest soap maker. Inasmuch as both Margarine Union and Lever Bros, control their sources of raw materials and also operate chain store systems through which their finished products reach the consumer, the merger represented one of the largest and most integrated of the world's provision trusts. Combined capital of the two companies is $301,000,000; their shares have a market...
Ratified in 1911, the Lever concession granted to Lever Bros, some 1,860,000 acres, gave the company the authority to build roads, canals, railways and telegraph systems. In 1920 Lever Bros. acquired control of the Niger Co., a trading company which had functioned in West Africa much as famed Lord Clive's British East Indian Co. had during the previous century functioned in India. Lever Bros, remains today the dominating figure in West African trade...