Word: far-flung
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...last summer Samuel ("Sam") Zemurray of New Orleans strode belligerently into a room at No. 1 Federal Street, Boston, where the directors of potent, far-flung United Fruit Co. were holding a meeting. Down on the long table in front of his old enemy, President Victor Macomber Cutter, he flung a handful of proxies. Said he: "You've been --ing up this business long enough. I'm going to straighten it out." The Bostonian directorate was profoundly and properly shocked. Nevertheless, before they adjourned they had created a new office- Managing Director in Charge of Operations-and elected...
...ought to have. No section had a right to dictate to him. to demand favors. The South? He could have won easily without it. The West? It was not a necessary ingredient of his victory. The Republican Progressives? Without them his sweep would have been the same. Such far-flung support would give him. if he chose to take it. extraordinary independence of action. He had a Congress overwhelmingly friendly in which to work his will. He started with a clean record, free from "sorehead" enemies in his own party or organized opposition from the Republicans. The country seemed ready...
...Conte di Savoia. Roosevelt-Dollar-Dawson interests combined to take over tottering U. S. Lines. Japan's two largest shipping companies, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan Mail Steamship Co.) and Osaka Shosen Kaisha (Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co.) last year agreed to divide some of their far-flung traffic. Last week it was reported that officials of these two big lines were negotiating an actual consolidation...
First contact with the subject is attained through Astronomy 1, a full course, covering with detail the whole realm of astronomical science from the earth to the far-flung reaches of intergalactic space. It is a course for the man wishing just a single course in the subject as well as for the man who is concentrating in the field...
...House of Steel has many mansions. In & out of it at No. 71 Broadway pass hundreds of executives of the 200 far-flung companies which constitute U. S. Steel Corp. Some of them visit for just a short time, some of them go there regularly. They are so many that the big staff of underlings at No. 71 could scarcely be expected to know any but the most important ones. They all, of course, know Myron Charles Taylor, the handsome Quaker whose office on the 17th floor is labeled "Chairman of the Finance Committee." They all know...