Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather than competition," "consideration for labor," "8-hour day." These phrases sound stale nowadays. A generation ago they were novel, might have continued so yet. But Judge Gary who invented them-something few of the younger businessmen know-applied them practically to the conduct of the U. S. Steel Corp., when in 1901 he took command as J. P. Morgan Sr.'s* direct agent...
...present John Pierpont Morgan was then studying finance in his father's English institutions. He returned to the U. S. and became a partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. in 1901, the year his father created the U. S. Steel Corp. Morgan Sr. died...
...clubs in Boston, Detroit, Manhattan, Chicago). The corporations are: 1) the North American Light and Power Co. of Studebaker (value $200,000,000), 2) The North American Co. in which Studebaker and Senator McKinley of Illinois are jointly interested (value $525,000,000), 3) The Middle West Utilities Corp. of Samuel Insull (value $425,000,000). Their aggregate earnings last year were almost...
...effect the merger the North American Light & Power Corp. will be refinanced and then owned jointly by the North American Co. and the Middle West Utilities Corp. But Mr. Studebaker has taken care to retain his individual stockholdings in the light and power company and to remain as its directing head...
...less admirable Jay Gould and their stern peers, the epithet had lapsed into disuse, but last week it was revived for a contemporary capitalist, Arthur Curtiss James. It became known that during the last two years Mr. James has accumulated a large stock interest in the Western Pacific Railroad Corp., becoming thereby probably the largest private railroad shareholder in the U. S.- a mighty factor in nearly 40,000 miles of railroad. The money he bought it with began to be accumulated a hundred years ago when his grandfather, Daniel, founded the Phelps-Dodge Corp. to export U. S. minerals...