Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came a reminder of the fact that the circus business is an industry, subject to profits and losses, to fat seasons and lean, and subject also to mergers, combinations, monopolization. It was the monopolistic aspect of the circus which last week attracted attention. For, through buying out American Circus Corp., John Ringling, large, two-chinned proprietor of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus became owner of every U. S. circus of any considerable size. American Circus Corp. was the management company for Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sparks and Al G. Barnes circuses. In absorbing American Circus Corp...
Entrance of the Morgan company into the utility field came in January 1929, with the formation of United Corporation, a company established by J. P. Morgan & Co., Drexel & Co. and Bonbright & Co. and with executive offices at 23 Wall St. (Morgan home). By June 29, United Corp. had the following holdings in the following utilities...
...June 29 these holdings were valued at $287, 919,008. United Gas Improvement and Public Service of New Jersey (its subsidiary) are both Mellon-controlled, and are expansions of the original United Gas Improvement Company which supplied gas to Philadelphia. Commonwealth and Southern Corp. is a holding company for Commonwealth Power Corp., which in turn operates companies all the way from Michigan to Georgia. Its largest single holder is American Superpower which has some 10,000,000 shares. Allied Power & Light is also a holding company, operating chiefly in the middle west, its list of operating companies partly duplicating...
...Hudson. New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt is said to be dubious concerning the legality of this merger, although his Republican attorney-general has reported it as within the law. Last week's excitement also centred along the St. Lawrence. Niagara-Hudson bought control of Frontier Corp., a company owned by Aluminum Co. (Mellon), General Electric and the du Ponts. One asset of Frontier Corp. is a waterpower site at Long Sault, on the St. Lawrence. Frontier Corp. prepared to develop this site two years ago, was blocked by Governor Alfred E. Smith. It may now make...
...President was Arthur Reynolds, who is board chairman of Continental-Illinois. Vice-president was James R. Leavell, also a Continental-Illinois vice president. The directorate included George M. Reynolds, Stanley Field, Charles F. Glore, D. R. McLennan, Eugene M. Stevens, Edward F. Swift, F. Edson White. Christened Continental Chicago Corp., and with an initial financing of $65,000,000, the new company was designed for an ultimate capitalization of $500,000,000. Continental-Illinois Co. (the investment affiliate of Continental-Illinois Bank) took 1,000,000 common shares of the 1,750,000 initially offered...