Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George R. Cooksey of the District of Columbia to succeed himself as a director of the War Finance Corp...
...farmers and men who thought the Government should sell or lease the project to a private operator. Among the bidders for Muscle Shoals have been Henry Ford, the American Cyanamid Co., the Union Carbide Co., Elon H. Hooker, the Underwood Power Co., the Consolidated Power Co., the Air Nitrates Corp., the Muscle Shoals Fertilizer Co., the Alabama Power...
Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. set out to make a cinema of life at Yale. Wells Root, able scribe, Yale graduate of 1922, wrote the story. The co-operation of Yale University was sought. Yale officials, however, exhibited coolness. So last week Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. planned to shoot the film in California, to use instead of Yale the name of a fictitious institution of learning...
...Minerva Tarbell, author of The History oj the Standard Oil Co., a thorough job on the seamy side. More recently, muckraking is not so popular and Miss Tarbell has written on the bright side, The Life of Judge Gary, late chairman of the board of U. S. Steel Corp. Critics wonder what she will do with the additional volume on the Standard Oil Co. that she is planning...
Third: The 20 Directors of General Electric have such vastly ramifying interests that one or more of them sit on the Boards of 200 (mostly great) U. S. corporations, from the Adirondacks Power & Light Corp. alphabetically to the Workman's Loan Association of Boston. And one of its Directors, George Fisher Baker Jr. 51, is the only man in the U. S. who sits on the Boards of four of the country's eleven billion-dollar corporations. His are General Electric, General Motors, A. T. & T., U. S. Steel. In that bridge-like respect he is the most potent...