Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexandria, Virginia's peppery little Carter Glass read Senator Borah's Detroit speech (see "Republicans"), and fulminated. He dug up Borah speeches in the Senate in 1919 which charged that the Hoover-headed Food Administration was "directed and controlled by" three of the "vast monopolies which control food in this country." Senator Borah had cited figures and said: "I do not want any man to operate a trust fund by my vote who thinks that those figures represent decency or honesty...
...fact, he threatened to resign. The reason was that Minister of War M. Paul Painleve would not relinquish control of military aviation, and Minister of the Navy M. Georges Leygues would not give up his hold on naval aviation. Between the two M. Eynac found he would have to struggle to achieve the full powers of his new office...
...Luke Lea, Tennessee hero and publisher of the Nashville Tennessean and three other southern newspapers* arranged a contract with the Howell family to purchase control of the Atlanta Constitution for $1,050,000 (in stock) plus an additional sum based on the 1927 earnings of the Constitution. A disagreement arose over the auditing of the earnings. Col. Lea and his associate bankers, Rogers, Caldwell, sued the Howell family to compel a sale for an additional $54,000. Last week both sides agreed to drop the suit...
...would have to speak at least 50 languages and dialects if he were to conduct personally all the affairs of the International Match Co. Within the last three years, Matchmaker Kreuger has concluded shrewd deals in Poland, Peru, Greece, Norway, Germany, France, Jugoslavia, Japan, Ecuador, Esthonia. International Match Co. controls 75% of U. S. production, through the wholly owned Vulcan Match Co., and through the "biggest" Diamond Match Co. This company has a contract with the Swedish monopoly for the sale of foreign matches in the U. S. until 1930. Last year International Match consolidated its interests with Bryant...
Rubber. The British Stevenson Act controlling the production of rubber in the Orient expires Nov. 1. London despatches last week reported British and Dutch rubber plantation owners, who control the world's present output, conferring to form a private group to restrict rubber production, to create an artificial shortage, to shove prices...