Word: corps
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There is, on the Andean plateau in Peru, a standard-gauge railroad owned by an American mining company (Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp.) connecting their camps with the main line of the Central Railway of Peru at Oroya...
...surplus profits in 114,000 shares of U. S. Steel common stock at an average of $122.80 per share, caused a stir in Wall Street. Current reports that Pierre Samuel du Pont, head of the concern and chairman of the board of directors of General Motors Corp., and his associates had bought many shares of U. S. Steel with private resources stirred mild rumors to the effect that Mr. du Pont was seeking Judge Elbert H, Gary's chairmanship in U. S. Steel. Bankers closely connected with Judge Gary, now in poor health, denied those reports...
...Grain Co. and will be managed by that concern, the Rosenbaums now dominate U. S. grain marketing, where for practically half a century the Armours dominated. Another feature is that the Chicago Elevator Properties, Inc., will handle practically the same business for which the wrecked Farmers Cooperative Grain Marketing Corp. (TIME, March 14) was organized three years...
From Dusseldorf, Germany, last week came despatches that the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works), second in size only to the United States Steel Corp., had signed contracts for a $34,000,000 loan-$30,000,000 to be sold in the U. S. through Dillon, Read & Co., and $4,000,000 in England, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden. An unusual feature of the proposed bonds is that they will draw interest and in addition will get 6½% more for every 1% increase in Vereinigte Stahlwerke's common stock dividend rate. The common rate is now 6%. If it becomes...
Died. Arthur Arton Hamerschlag, 59, president of Research Corp. of Carnegie Institute of Technology, onetime (1903-22) president of same institute, intimate friend of the late Andrew Carnegie; from complications following an intestinal operation; in Manhattan...