Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more luxurious basis, had been built to compete with the aging dignity of the Waldorf-Astoria, the hotel was taken over by Waldorf-Astoria, Inc., of which General T. Coleman du Pont was a director. It is this corporation which last week sold the property to the Bethlehem Engineering Corp. The new owners stated that they would erect, on the Waldorf-Astoria site, a 50-story office building...
Manufacturers' Trust was formed in 1905 as Citizens' Trust Co. of Brooklyn (capital $500,000). Under the leadership of Founder Nathan S. Jonas, and with the assistance of his brother, Ralph Jonas, head of Financial and Securities Industrial Corp., the bank's expansion was rapid. Many a small bank was acquired by the Financial Corp., then transferred to the family bank. After the acquisition of the Manufacturers' National Bank, Citizens' Trust became (1916) Manufacturers' Trust...
...last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 17), but no fabulous fortune did his will reveal. His estate was valued at $20,000,000; his investments, sound, shrewd, included stocks in Chicago Daily News; Chicago Rapid Transit; Commonwealth Edison; First National Bank, Chicago; Pullman, Inc.; Swift & Co.; 20 Wacker Drive Building Corp. Estate income goes mainly to Widow Amanda Louise Patten. Upon her death, estate will be divided, one half to charity, one half between Son John L. Patten, Daughter (Mrs.) Agnes Patten Wilder of Santa Barbara, California...
...formation of a British steel cartel to meet foreign competition in world markets. First came a triple merger involving three British steel makers (Vickers, Vickers-Armstrong, and Cammell, Laird & Co.) who united all their interests, except their armament works, in a company to be called the English Steel Corp., Ltd. Capital: about $100,000,000. Then came another merger-the union of Dorman Long, Ltd. with Bolckow Vaughan & Co., Ltd. Capital also about $100,000,000. An export agreement has been concluded and an effort will be made to secure a protective tariff on steel...
Capitalizations of $100,000,000 may represent huge companies in British steel, but U. S. citizens point to the "billion dollar" U. S. Steel Corp. as the real standard of steel magnitude. Whether because of its association with such names as Carnegie...