Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago the U. S. War Department planked out $25,009,388 for a whopping rush order of airplane engines. To Allison Engineering Co., a newcomer in high-powered aeronautics, went the fattest slice: $15,080,261. Old-established Wright Aeronautical Corp. and Pratt & Whitney (already fat with Army contracts) came off second and a poor third (Wright: $8,975,317; Pratt & Whitney $953,810). Reason: Army men favored the Allison 1,200-h.p. engine (TIME, Jan. 30), whose twelve inline cylinders, snug as a whippet's ears, made it the last word in streamlined high-output power...
Second Fiddle displays Sonja as Trudi Hovland, a schoolmarm of Bergen, Minn. who is called to Hollywood because her local swain has sent her photograph to Consolidated Pictures Corp., which has been looking high & low for just such a heroine.* Jimmy Suttou (Tyrone Power), the pressagent sent to Bergen to fetch her, at first treats her merely as Entry No. 436. He agrees that she has no chance for the part but talks her into flying to Hollywood for the trip, with her Aunt Phoebe (Edna May Oliver). After a twirl on the ice with her pupils, Trudi consents. Although...
...utility super-holding companies, J. P. Morgan's United Corp. was the biggest and fell the hardest. United now looks back ruefully on its ten checkered years of existence and hopes that it has finished taking its licking. In this connection it announced last week its first step toward quitting business as a utility holding company and setting up as an investment trust. It reported that in the past three months it had invested nearly $2,500,000 in 15 leading common stocks (Chrysler, DuPont, General Electric...
...United Corp. was created Jan. 7, 1929, when J. P. Morgan and Co., in common with most U. S. elevator boys and other brokerage hangers-on, was somewhat overexuberant. Morgan & Co. and its "good neighbor" Bonbright & Co., put up $20,000,000, plus common stocks of great utility systems, giving United $150,000,000 in assets. They installed softspoken, aristocratic George Henry Howard as president of the new utility combine. Howard was one of the smartest graduates of the informal law school that the late Dwight Morrow ran at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett's Manhattan lawshop, before Morrow became...
...March 1931 occurred another event which was to be one of the most momentous in United's history. It boosted its holdings to a dominant (22.1%) interest in upper New York's giant utility, Niagara Hudson Power Corp. (assets then $784,298,192). This deal elevated someone new to a dominant position in United: an extraordinary young banker named Floyd Carlisle, who has always been thought of as a "Morgan man," and is today the No. 1 U. S. utility magnate. Carlisle then ran and still runs the St. Regis Paper Co., which happened...