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Word: ebasco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Appraisal Co.; Coverdale & Colpitts; Ebasco Services, Inc.; Ford, Bacon & Davis, Inc.; Jackson & Moreland; Madigan-Hyland; F. H. McGraw & Co.; Sanderson & Porter; Standard Research Consultants, Inc.; Stone & Webster Engineering Corp.; J. G. White Engineering Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN DEVELOPMENT: A Plan for the King of Kings | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...haired Chairman Clarence Edward Groesbeck pounded the gavel to open the company's meeting in downtown Manhattan. Up jumped scrappy, leather-lunged Stockholder Samuel Okin, crying: "This whole meeting is invalid . . . the proxies must be checked." Chairman Groesbeck quickly shoved the gavel into the hands of tall, suave Ebasco President Samuel Wilson Murphy, but the rumpus could not be stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of Bond & Share | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...Stockholder Okin bellowed on: "I'm going to tell the whole truth about the company's officers and directors . . . and don't anybody try to stop me." Paced by the staccato poundings of President Sam Murphy, Okin told how he had bought 9,000 shares of Ebasco stock, was about to lose everything because "the management had tried to sell the company down the river by playing into the hands of the SEC." Up went shouts: "Fight the SEC!" "Save our company!" A peacemaker tried to smooth things over, got so wrought up himself that he threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of Bond & Share | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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