Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan head served on the staff of one of Napoleon's generals. The father, also an army man, sent Frederick Ecker to a Brooklyn Sunday school of which Joseph Fairchild Knapp, founder of the Metropolitan, was superintendent. At the age of 16, Mr. Ecker got his first Metropolitan job. He distributed mail through the office, worked from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m., received $4 a week. As his present salary is almost $4,000 a week (he is said to receive $200,000 a year), his advancement has been very considerable...
...Ecker has spent the major portion of his 46 Metropolitan years working on the financial and investment side of the business. When the office of comptroller was established (1905) he was its first incumbent; when the company grew to the point where a treasurer was necessary (1906) Mr. Ecker was first treasurer. Since 1906 he has been in charge of all investments...
...cure for over production, the U. S. tycoon is still a little nervous concerning production agreements which might provoke anti-trust proceedings. So everyone simply shook hands all around and Edwin Benjamin Reeser, head. of A. P. I., also of Barnsdall Corp., Tulsa independent, said: "For the first time in the life of the Institute a child has been born...
...corporations last week reporting their 1928 earnings (it would seem that the early reports on the first quarter of 1929 would be arriving before the 1928 list is complete) public utilities were particularly well represented. Great are utilities and large their earnings, but for some reason the report of (say) Public Service Corp. of New Jersey does not excite as much popular interest as the report of (say) Jordan Motors. When a good Jordan report comes out, everyone gets a mental picture of many a Jordan hastening along the nation's highways, but Public Service Corp. probably suggests only...
Jenkins Television Corp. was announced last winter (TIME, Dec. 17), as a $10,000,000 company with Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. as a director. Last week it reported on its first four months of corporate life. Scanners of its balance sheet were somewhat puzzled to account for the ten million dollar estimate of size. The company had $186,000 cash on hand and in banks, $350,000 in the call loan market, some $78,000 in fixed assets. Of its $9,509,866.44 total assets, no less than $8,892,604.89 consisted of book value of patents and patent...