Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lurid or political, at week's end the relief situation in Ohio was still critical. Hundreds of tons of foodstuffs from Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. were poured into the State. President Roosevelt approved the expenditure of $1,248,991 for three new WPA projects. Cleveland saw some new money for relief in sight as its City Council approved the sale of $1,200,000 worth of bonds against delinquent taxes. But these were only stopgaps...
Promised for Cleveland's relief were 17 carloads of surplus commodities from the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., 6,000 new WPA jobs. But-"We already are receiving from ten to twelve carloads a day and it is not going very far," said Sidney T. Rowley, assistant relief commissioner. As for the WPA jobs, WPA Director Frank T. Miskell announced there were no new projects available, and few of the 16,000 were even fit for WPA work...
Cyrus Eaton's Otis & Co. wrote a letter to Wendell Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., saying that they understood that big holding company was about to buy 125,000 shares of stock from its Michigan subsidiary, Consumers Power Co. Mr. Eaton righteously set out a plan to disprove Wendell Willkie's chronic complaint that investors will not buy utilities securities: his Otis & Co. would gladly pay a price "substantially in excess" of the $28.25 that C. & S. was going...
...industry, York Ice Machinery Corp., was last week very busy making refrigerator equipment for new U. S. warships...
...early 1920s, Martin-Parry Corp. was a big U. S. manufacturer of commercial car bodies, for a few years grossed up to $5,000,000 annually. Its founder and president is tall, fretting, blue-eyed Frederick M. Small, son of the town's richest man, who went through Yale, returned to set up his own candy factory, and before he was 22 employed 200 men. Now he is 61, and since 1927 Martin-Parry Corp. has lost money every year. That year Henry Ford changed over from Model T to Model A, and Martin-Parry, with a big stock...