Word: corp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest government-owned and operated commercial enterprises is Inland Waterways Corp., a barge service on the Mississippi and tributaries which last year netted the U. S. a profit of $441,651. Reported Secretary Good: "Before long the Government can pass over the corporation's facilities to private capital for operation...
...State had lately been organized Wisconsin Bankshares Corp. to acquire local banks to "protect" them from "foreign control." Locally patriotic as the purpose of Wisconsin Bankshares might be. it was not sufficiently so to prevent the Progressive politicians from adopting this resolution...
...Orleans, chief banana port, came rumors that U. F. C. had bought the Cuyamel Fruit Co., second in the field, operating eleven ships, large landowners in Honduras and Nicaragua. Combined assets of the two companies would exceed $250,000,000. Independent still would be the Standard Fruit and Steamship Corp., founded and largely owned by the Brothers Vaccaro of New Orleans...
...sailed last week to attend a Manhattan meeting of the board of directors of Dornier Motors Aircraft Corp. of America, which General Motors Corp. recently formed to make his big seaplanes in the U. S. (TIME...
Scheme No. 1 concerned the Bankers' Capital Corp. which recently failed, attributing its collapse to low levels of bank stocks. Investigation indicated that Bankers' Capital, instead of dealing in bank stocks, formed affiliated companies, buying stock in one and then selling it at a profit to another. In turn the affiliates used their resources to support the market in Bankers' Capital stock. From this procession of intramural deals Bankers' Capital last year earned enough to pay a special dividend of $17 a share ($2,000,000). Outstanding stock of Bankers' Capital and affiliated companies came...