Word: foresaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman of Commercial Credit is Alexander Edward Duncan, 53, canny Kentuckian of Scotch descent. With only a high-school education he started his first credit company in 1907, organized Commercial Credit in 1912 with $300,000 capital. He foresaw the motorcar as a great opportunity and his company now has 62% of its business in that field. Chief of his motor customers is Chrysler Corp. He likes fishing and horse-races, is more of a home man than a clubfellow. He lives in Baltimore where the company began, still maintains its home office although it is represented in 191 cities...
Observers foresaw a long, hard pull for the owners of the News. When Publisher Lawson died in 1925, his wife's nephew Walter Strong and 36 associates bought the paper (against 23 bidders) for $13,500,000. It was recapitalized for $19,000,000. The new $13,000,000 plant, built over the C. & N. W. railway tracks, which it now occupies was leased for 20 years at a yearly rental of $450,000. To earn 5% on its debt, and meet sinking funds and amortization charges, the paper should earn at least $1,450,000 a year. Last...
...senior in rank, Henry Lewis Stimson, was so busy with despatches that he missed his train to New York; flew; sailed, as scheduled, for Italy aboard the S.S. Conte Grande. His trip was originally intended to be a vacation but President Hoover after re- ceiving the French reply, foresaw where his Secretary of State could be more useful abroad than in his high-ceiled Washington office.* On the Conte Grande a cabin near his B deck suite had been especially fitted out as an office for the Secretary of State who took with him Captain Eugene A. Regnier, his military...
...future, Mr. Farrell foresaw no "hope of better prices in our business until the presidents of the companies are willing to stop this diabolical business-that is the word-the most diabolical situation that was ever perpetrated in the business...
...Diamond indictment and subsequent assault released a torrent of indignation in Greene County, whose citizenry foresaw that its nest of city rats was about to ruin the summer tourist trade. Thereupon, Governor Roosevelt, preparing to sail for Paris to visit his aged mother who is ill with influenza, appointed Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. to supersede the local prosecutor, clean up the Catskill's gangster colony...