Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...despatched from Moscow by air Railway Commissioner L. B. Serebriakov to confer with China's Foreign Minister. Onlookers wondered how oldtime Bolshevik Serebriakov, now high in the Communist Party, would deal with Communist-enemy Wang. Wise ones pointed out that Comrade Serebriakov is also vice president of Amtorg Trading Corp. of Manhattan, giant trade outlet for Russian goods; that he would doubtless do his conciliatory best to avoid Russia's having to revert to the slow...
...Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s man, Dee Tobin, was a third U. S. entrepreneur at Rio con tending for the same contracts...
With potent finance he was in close touch through Hill School and Yale friends. So as an operating executive he was well qualified when, one year ago. Aviation Corp. of the Americas bought Pan-American Airways, to make his project actual. During the past year he has opened passenger lines from Miami to Nassau, to Cuba and the West Indies as far as Porto Rico (a tourist route), to Central America via Brownsville, Tex. and Mexico City...
...North Willys disappeared from the automobile world with the sale of his entire Willys-Overland holdings (some 800,000 shares of common). Nor did any one individual take his place. Purchasers were a combination of Chicago and Toledo interests. The Chicago interest was Field, Glore & Co., acting for Chicago Corp., the Midwest investment trust organized last winter (TIME, Feb. 25). Election of Charles F. Glore and Marshall Field III to the Willys-Overland directorate will be one immediate result of the transaction. The Toledo purchasers were headed by George M. Jones, wealthy head of Toledo's Ohio Savings Bank...
McCall's, third largest in size of woman's magazines, has in recent years been a fast-growing profitmaker for its owners. Profits give publishers ideas. Last week McCall Co. decided to acquire control of Consolidated Magazines Corp., publishers of the fiction monthlies Red Book (circulation, 791,219) and Blue Book (165,903). Louis Eckstein, "the man behind Ravinia,*" president of Consolidated, required 25,603 shares of McCall stock, valued at more than two million dollars, to consummate the deal...