Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally a "semiofficial statement" of the consolidation plan was given to an anxious world by parties unnamed. It provided for the creation of a brand new company (the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.) to acquire and hold the stocks of the old "Nickel Plate" (the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Co.), the Erie, the C. & O., the Hocking Valley, and the Pere Marquette. The new company will have two classes of stock, common and 6% preferred, which will be exchanged in varying ratios for the stocks of the several roads going into the merger, on terms apparently...
...opinion of the vocabularies of moviegoers, they might have called this picture The Mountebank after W. J. Locke's story which it dramatized. Ernest Torrence, as the Mountebank, plays all the chords of Locke's sentimentalism as clown and brigadier general in worthy re-creation of the intinerant romance...
...Public ownership of the Nation's water power and creation of a public superpower system. Strict Strict public control and permanent conservation of all national resources, including coal, iron and other ores, oil and timber lauds,in the interest of the people. Promotion of public works in times of business depression...
...Creation of Government marketing corporation to provide a direct route between farm producer and city consumer, and to assure farmers fair prices for their products and protect consumers from the profiteers in foodstuffs and other necessaries of life. Legislation to conduct the meat-packing industry...
Democratic Rule, 1913-1921. Economic life quickened; no corruption; privilege uprooted; great leadership in a great war; reduction of tariff taxes; creation of Federal Trade Commission, Farm Loan system, Secretariat of Labor; Federal Reserve system; enactment of more effective, constructive, remedial legislation than the Republicans had done in a generation...