Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Terminated committee hearings on Mississippi flood control. (The hearings began in early December. No measure was yet agreed upon...
...Robert W. Stewart, brisk, bulky board chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, know where Continental was buying $1.50 oil? He did. He also knew that the oil would cost him $1.75 from the same source, for reasons beyond his control. Since oil was commanding $2 per barrel elsewhere at the moment, he felt he was serving his Indiana Standard stockholders well in helping to guarantee to Sinclair, as cunningly inevitable middleman, a profit which Indiana Standard could equal in turn. "It was a good buy," he said...
...Last week, Cortland Field Bishop, the owner of the latter, made a purchase from Mitchell Kennerley, book publisher, connoisseur, and president of the Anderson Galleries. The exact price of his purchase he refused to divulge; almost certainly it was more than $1,000,000. In exchange, Mr. Bishop acquired control of the Anderson Galleries. No real estate, no stock, not even a chipped picture frame changed hands. By buying the Anderson Galleries, Mr. Bishop had merely purchased access to its clientele, the opportunity to pay rent on an old four-story building, and a vast quantity of that dubious commodity...
From his desk under the dome, with his class gathered around him, the professor will control the universe, while lecturing...
...Keith-Albee & Orpheum vaudeville circuits, now merged (TIME, Dec. 19), control 700 theatres...