Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem of general unemployment, not with those local and sporadic instances of unemployment which result from such causes as changes in production methods or the geographical shifting of industries. Business booms, crises, and depressions are not entirely a thing of the past, and, unless we learn how to control business activities better than has been done heretofore, the problem of general unemployment will arise again acutely as it did in 1921, 1908, and other periods of business depression. Heretofore resort has been had to soup kitchens, special commissions and conferences, and much talk, which continued until the distress had been...
...mind of the layman the subject of public ownership recalls to memory the Muscle Shoals controversy, Governor Smith's long and ardent battle for state control of various water power resources in New York, and the charges current last year that university professors were being privately paid on a large scale to spread propaganda against the idea of public ownership of utilities. In recent years these and other items relating to the same topic have frequently been featured as front page news in the newspapers. But more than an issue of the day the subject represents a phase...
...seven torches of character, faith, motive, beauty, work, knowledge, conquest, God. Basil King writes a book inspiring in its powerful conclusion--that man can and must control his fate...
...Progress of the express business, from a competition between express companies to a railroad-controlled monopoly sanctioned by the Government, began during the War. For just as the railroads were administered by the Government, so the physical properties of the express companies were sold to the then newly-formed American Railway Express Co., which was managed by a Federal administrator. In September, 1920, Government administration ended, and American Railway Express continued as an operating company whose stock was jointly held by Adams Express and American Express. American Railway Express then arranged contracts with almost every U. S. railroad (notable exception...
Textile Merger. Consolidation of Frederick Vietor & Achelis with Peierls, Buhler & Co., Inc., leading textile financing firms, was last week announced by Commercial Investment Trust Corp., which has acquired control of both organizations. Resources of the combined firms total $35,000,000; annual sales are in excess...