Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time in five years, at a public dance in the lounge of the Grand Canyon Hotel. First she circled the room with her son; then with Col. Blanton Winship, the President's military aide. After that with Horace Albright, park superintendent. Then with W. M. Nichols, Yellowstone Park Hotel Corp. official...
...practice, which in 1852 began to be identified with the steel industry. How he conducted the incorporation of the American Steel & Wire Co. in a way that impressed the elder J. P. Morgan, how Mr. Morgan immediately engaged him to amalgamate and head the Federal Steel Corp., how Judge Gary kept insisting that a still bigger corporation must be formed to compete with England and Germany, how Mr. Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie and put Charles M. Schwab, a Carnegie man, in the presidency and Judge Gary in the executive chair of the first billion-dollar trust is familiar history...
...colorless exterior of a man who, to promote the impersonal ends of a vast and complex organization, submerged his own personality. After he moved to Manhattan he collected art, raised fine cattle, went to the opera. But just before he left Wheaton, Ill., to be head of the Federal Corp., a friend found him sitting with his hunting coat, bag and gun in his lap. "I will never use them again," he said...
...meet the Newcomb Carlton interests (Western Union) with measures never before adopted by a U. S. cable company with radio. For perhaps five millions, estimators said, the Mackay system could and would set up a "beam" radio service similar to the Marconi Co.'s present, and the Radio Corp.'s proposed, transatlantic services. The Mackay radio system across the Pacific would be in competition with the Radio Corp.'s present service as far west as Japan, but, said rumor, it would not be operated essentially as a radio competitor but as a cable adjunct, a swift...
...Radio Corp. of America announced that within a month it would place a "beam" radio service insuring high speed and privacy at the disposal of U. S. businessmen desirous of communicating with London. The announcement came as the fourth in a series of transatlantic communication improvements within a year. Last summer the Western Union Co. completed laying the second of two loaded or "permalloy" cables across the Atlantic capable of carrying 2,500' code letters per minute each (TIME, July...