Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will tour the country as though they were plays on the legitimate stage, expecting to succeed as did The Covered Wagon, which as a "road show" earned $1,000,000 net. Because the Paramount trademark is so widely known, the corporation name may be modified to: Paramount Famous Lasky Corp...
Universal Pictures Corp... Carl Laemmle, president, said last week that he will spend in the following months $15,500,000 on filming 11 Broadway plays, 11 popular novels, 22 "thrill dramas," International News pictures, scores of short subjects...
...honest in utilizing the technical improvements of Inventor Marconi. By inventing new ways of wireless communication-the latest is the beam system†-he has made obsolete millions of dollars worth of equipment which was new only five or ten years ago. His company, like General Electric and Radio Corp. of America, is paying for the advancement of applied science...
...admission of Eskimo Pie Corp. securities to trading on the New York Curb Market last week marked another incident in the life of a Scandinavian immigrant. The trivial business that Christian K. Nelson and Russell Stover began at Omaha, Neb., half a dozen years ago was now a $25,000,000 corporation...
...early iron-and-steelmongers who tried and failed, and tried again and again to make good metal from the sulphurous mountain ore and sell it profitably. It helped educate Birmingham out of its suicidal policy of selling cheap pig iron to northern manufacturers. The U. S. Steel Corp. put George Gordon Crawford in as 38-year-old president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. with the cheery news that he was like "a man who, having a millstone hung about his neck, has been thrown into a rushing current and told to swim upstream...