Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gray man in the office is only formally subordinate to Dr. Work. After seeing how ably the Midwestern cornerstone of his vote was being swung into place and how carefully the cement was being mixed, Nominee Hoover gave pink-white-and-gray James William Good implicit freedom and full control at Chicago. When Dr. Work goes to New York he feels free to issue suggestions and vetoes to Senator Moses. When he goes to Chicago, as he did on the eve of the Smith invasion, he just sits and listens to Mr. Hoover's Good...
...wait long to make felt the influence of his recent investments in New York Central. For last week the New York Central directors who control N. Y. C.'s most important subsidiary, the Big Four (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway), elected Fred J. Fisher a Big Four director. It was freely predicted he would become a N. Y. C. director next month...
Warner Brothers Pictures Inc (Vitaphone sound pictures) last week arranged to buy Stanley Co. of America (exhibitors with more than 3.000 cinema houses under control). The absorption is a $100,000,000 affair...
Cinema. Warner Bros, bought control of the Stanley Co. of America, and thereby first entree to more than 3,000 cinema houses...
...Peierls, Buhler & Co. (see p. 43), and the consolidation of two rough rolled glass makers-Highland Glass Co. at Washington, Pa., and the Western Glass Co. at Streator, Ill., Shirley, Ind., and Fullerton, Calif.-as the Highland-Western Glass Co., with $5,000,000 capital. The men who control both the United Light and Power Co. and the American Light and Traction Co., were indifferent as to which company would buy technical control of the other and create a half billion dollar utility merger. Chiefly because of a complicated financial set up United Light and Power, last week, became...