Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third of this sum by floating a sterling loan in London under the leadership of J. Henry Schroder & Co. there. The remaining $10,000,000 will be obtained by a U. S. bond issue, to be floated by Manhattan bankers, including Speyer & Co., the Equitable Trust, Chase Securities Corp., Blair & Co. and the Bank of the Manhattan Co. The German roads are organized by the Experts' Plan under one company-the German State Railroad Co.-and comprise 33,000 miles of track, along with 31,000 locomotives, 70,000 passenger cars and 750,000 freight cars, most of which...
...often solicited with the "pattycake pattycake" of nursery rhymesters to bake cake as fast as he could, was, last week, facilitated in the accomplishment of this by a $450,000,000 Bakery merger, announced by George F. Barber, Secretary and Treasurer of the United Bakeries Corp. The merged interests, incorporated as the Continental Baking Corp. of Maryland, will issue 2,000,000 shares of 8% cumulative dividend preferred stock, par value $100 a share; also 4,000,000 of common stock without par value. It was rumored that the Ward Bakery Co., the Loose Wiles Biscuit Co. and the American...
...these activities, if true, are small beside Mr. Durant's market operations while he controlled the General Motors Corp. in 1919. At one time his fortune was stated to be $100 million. The smash in stocks beginning in November, 1919, wiped out most of this, and Durant was compelled to sell out his control of the General Motors Corp. to a banking syndicate. But the genius of Chevrolet soon organized his own auto company, and is said to have done well in its shares on the Curb. In 1921-22 he "came back" in Wall Street by making...
Alfred H. Swayne, Vice President of General Motors Corp...
...over the combined businesses of five of the largest grain elevator companies of the Middle West (TIME, July 28). The Farm Bureau Federation approved it, and the first steps leading to carrying out the proposal were put into effect. This means that the Armour Grain Co., the Rosenbaum Grain Corp., J. C. Shaffer & Co., Rosenbaum Bros, and the Davis-Noland-Merrill Co. have surrendered their prop erties to the giant $26,000,000 Grain Marketing Co. The public is being asked to subscribe $25,000,000 of preferred stock which is gradually to be retired as an equal amount...