Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cabinet members must soon report on their year's work. Last week, busy with his report, Secretary of War Davis could not help brimming over about one of his subsidiary concerns, the Inland Waterways Corp. This Federal company operates barge lines on the Warrior River (Alabama) and on upper and lower reaches, of the Mississippi. It showed a $277,782 net income for nine 1928 months, compared to $45,507 at the same time last year...
...worker with him for the U. S. Radium Corp., Dr. Edward Lehman, died much more quickly from the radium poisoning. Only two others, French researchers, have died similar deaths...
...Kolster Radio Corp., Federal-Brandes Inc. (wireless communication equipment). International Telephone & Telegraph Co. recently bought control of Federal Telegraph. Hence it profits from Dr. Kolster's devices and knowledge...
...biggest passenger plane ever built in the U. S. last week flew up & down for demonstration flights at the Bristol, Pa., airport of the Keystone Aircraft Corp., its builders. It is a high wing monoplane with three Wright Cyclone 525 h.p. motors that can carry it and a 7½ ton load at 130 m. p. h. cruising speed, at 155 m. p. h. high speed. In its cabin is one stateroom with a sleeping compartment, and seats for 20 passengers and two pilots. Keystone's President Edgar N. Gott named it the Patrician...
...subsidiaries on strictly telephonic affairs. In 1925, it sold Western Electric's foreign supply business to I. T. & T. Last week, it announced the offer of Graybar's entire $3,000,000 common voting stock to its 2,500 employes and officers, as the Graybar Management Corp. Led by A. L. Salt, Graybar's president, the gleeful new owners planned...