Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...device for receiving pictures sent by radio enlarges them to nine times their original size. Last week, in Manhattan, this device was successfully demonstrated by engineers of the Radio Corp. of America. Its basis is paper so sensitized that hot air will turn it black. A blast of hot air plays through a fine jet on the paper at the receiving end. A jet of cold air controlled by radio signals transmitting the desired picture by the usual radiograph process, modulates the hot air, producing the shading in the received picture. The advantage of magnifying photographs sent by radio: when...
...Board of Trade last week forbade the Armour Grain Co. (corporation entirely separate from Armour & Co., meat packers) from further trading on their grain exchange. Thus the directors punished the company for the knavery of Armour Grain Co. employes?their thievery, their defrauding of the Farmers Cooperative Grain Marketing Corp. with burnt grain (TiME, Mar. 14), and their desecration of the Board's prestige...
...Stevens called a taxi, rode to the Hotel Commodore, resumed tending to the business of the Wickwire-Spencer Corp. of Tulsa, of which he is general sales manager. Glum, Messrs. Maroney, McLaughlin, Santo rode a police-patrol; morose, they sat in cells...
William Crapo Durant, creator of General Motors Corp. and lately a profiting speculator in Wall Street, last week spent $21,000 to advertise in 48 newspapers in 29 cities, and thus gain presumably 8,800,000 readers of the new leaf he is turning industrially as well as financially. At 65 years of age he intends to duplicate General Motors -by means of Consolidated Motors Inc., which he has just had incorporated in Delaware. And "exactly as the Buick in 1908 was used as the nucleus and the keystone of the great General Motors," he intends...
President Albert Russel Erskine of Studebaker Corp. tantalized holders of Studebaker motor car stock at their annual meeting last week. He told them that already this year their workers had produced 30,000 Studebakers and 7,427 of the new Erskines. Said he: "Studebaker cars are regaining the popularity they enjoyed in 1922 and 1923." This encouraged the stockholders, for although production records were highest in the company's history, profits for the first three months of this year were less than for the same three months...