Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resigned every office I then held in any corporation and resigned all my directorates. ... I sold every share of stock I owned in every national bank, trust company or other banking institution. I then owned and I now own a substantial amount of stock in the Gulf Oil Corp., the Aluminum Co. of America, Standard Steel Car Co. and other business corporations, but in every case my holding is very much less than a majority of the voting stock of such corporations. . . . My active connection with them was severed in 1921 as completely as if I had died at that...
...automobile industry has developed many an accessory industry (notably tires) so the aviation industry has its accessory fields. Thus Scintilla magnetos are standard equipment on Curtiss, Wright and Pratt & Whitney engines. Thus ignition systems built by Delco Aviation Corp., General Motors subsidiary, are used on all Liberty aviation engines. As the aviation industry develops, so the making of aviation accessories increases as well...
...this accessory industry came last week its first great merger. Known as the Bendix Aviation Corp., the new company will be 25% controlled by General Motors...
Other companies represented are Bendix Corp., Electric Auto-Lite, Wright and Curtiss. The new aviation accessory corporation will be capitalized at $140,000,000 President of Bendix Aviation Corp. is Vincent Bendix, inventor of the Bendix Drive, now used on more than 30,000.000 automobiles, developer, also, of the Bendix Four Wheel Brake. Tallish, well-built, with brown hair and a boyish complexion that shows no signs of his having been in existence for almost haF a century (born 1881), Mr. Bendix is nevertheless alarmed concerning embonpoint. Lately he acquired an elastic belt to pre vent undue Bendix expansion...
...influence of the Herald and Traveler. I. P. & P. is primarily a power combine nowadays, affiliated through such men as it placed in charge of the Herald and Traveler with potent finance (Old Colony Trust Co., First National Bank, Harris Forbes & Co.), with potent industry (United Shoe Machinery Corp.), with potent traction interests (New York, New Haven & Hartford...