Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Presidency of Herbert Hoover, the able engineer and organizer under whose secretaryship the Department of Commerce grew from small acorn to many-branched oak, an element of U. S. Government unknown to the Founding Fathers really got going: government-by-agency. Reconstruction Finance Corp. was the Hoover era's modest prototype for what, after 1933, became known as Franklin Roosevelt's billionaire "alphabet soup...
...Lending Agency would consolidate ten independents: RFC, Disaster Loan Corp, RFC Mortgage Co., Federal National Mortgage Association, Electric Home & Farm Authority, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Home Owners' Loan Corp., Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corp., Federal Housing Administration, Export-Import Bank of Washington...
...Department of Agriculture would go the Farm Credit Administration, Federal Farm Mortgage Corp. and Commodity Credit Corp. (all now independent...
Largest and most active of the general market molders is Chicago Molded Products Corp., operated by the four Bachner Brothers. Sons of a Chicago watchmaker, the Brothers Bachner started as diemakers in a dingy Chicago shop in 1919, organized their own plastics company in 1924 to do their own molding on their own dies. That year their net sales were $10,000. Last year their net sales were...
...youngest attorney general in New Jersey history, 36-year-old Thomas Mesbitt McCarter, resigned to merge the State's helter-skelter trolley and transmission lines into one concern. Today his Public Service Corp. of New Jersey is the biggest company operating entirely in the State (total assets: $686,000,000). Founder McCarter's shock of hair has turned from red to white, but his bulky, florid personality is still as dominant as ever...