Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fall included himself, the W. B. Foshay Co. (holding company for public utilities, commercial and industrial enterprises), the Public Utilities Consolidated Corp. (subsidiary operating utilities), the Foshay Building Corp. (real estate). The value of the three companies was estimated at $20,000,000. But their liabilities last week were put at $12,500,000 and they went into the hands of a receiver (Minneapolis Merchant-Banker Joseph Chapman...
Interstate branch banking is not yet a fact. Many a U. S. citizen however believes that it soon will be. Of these none believes more devoutly than Mr. Amadeo Peter Giannini, president of Transamerica Corp. Ample proof of his belief came last week when he announced his intention of increasing the number of Transamerica stockholders from 135,000 to 500,000. One million shares were authorized. When or if interstate branch banking is allowed by Federal law Mr. Giannini will have paved the way for branch banks in many states by having stockholders in many states...
...Steel. On the day on which its three month option would have expired United States Steel Corp. last week announced that it had purchased Columbia Steel Corp., Los Angeles, whose assets total $38,694,416. For this it paid approximately $46,630,000 in common stock...
Besides the Fokker Aircraft interest General Motors owns a large block of stock in Bendix Aviation Corp., accessory manufacturers selling to the entire industry...
...exigent early stop is Friedrichshafen where he must meet Dr. Dornier before the German leaves for Manhattan where, the middle of next month, he must confer with the directors of Dornier Corp. of America and help them get started manufacturing his monster seaplanes. At the Friedrichshafen meeting the German and the Hollander will discuss, among other practical things, the usefulness of fulfilling the promise which Dr. Dornier made last week-that next March or April he will send his huge Do-X flying across the Atlantic to demonstrate that heavier-than-air machines can be made as practical as dirigibles...