Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arrangements have been made so that this increase in tuition may not bear too heavily on needy and able students. All scholarships and fellowships under the control of the University, when assigned to men subject to the new fee, will be increased by $100; and substantial additions will be made to the loan funds of Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Lobbyists had pressed special claims. Businessmen had pictured the Basin's real financial extremity. Politicians had embarked on the flood for a joyride, and the bill at last said: "$473,000,000 for federal flood-control, without local contribution...
...difference between the administration's figure and that of the House Flood-Control Committee was just $183,000,000. As the "greatest fight" began, and the "superflood" abated, citizens wondered what part of a 183-million-dollar stumbling-block should be scored against...
...decades the road had paid $10 a share dividends; the comfort of many a New England family depended on its earnings; it was "New England Investors' Bible," "as safe as Government bonds." J. P. Morgan & Co. controlled the road, the late Charles Sanger Mellen was its president. Ambitious to control all of New England's transportation, the N. Y. N. H. & H. bought trolley, steamship and other connecting lines at inflated values. Financial collapse of the N. Y. N. H. & H. followed. President Mellen was ejected. Later Edward Jones Pearson, able railroad operator, came in as president, while...
Blair & Co. (Bankers) with the Keith-Albee-Orpheum organization (vaudeville and cinema houses) control the Pathe Exchange; which controls the Pathe News Reel, Cecil B. DeMille Pictures, Producers Distributing Corp., Metropolitan Pictures (Christie features), Producers International Corp. To this list of subsidiaries was added last week the Film Booking Office (FBO), largest non-theatre-owning producers & distributors of cinemas (60 annually...