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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. William Patterson MacCracken Jr., onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, to be counsel for Goodyear Zeppelin Corp., counsel for Western Air Express, Board Chairman of New York. Rio & Buenos Aires Airways.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Shenandoah was permitted to purchase. for retirement, 765,200 shares of its own $50 preferred shares at a price considerably below its current $35 quotation. As a result of their favorable refinancing, both corporations closed last week with assets per share not far removed from their original assets-per-share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: First Aid | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

When, 28 years ago, Simon I. Patiño was a bill collector for a Bolivian general store, he accepted from a debtor certain mountain lands instead of $250. The store discharged him after making him pay $250 in cash. Impoverished, he went to see the land, dug, discovered tin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lead Maneuver | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Of Senor Patiño's customers the most important is the National Lead Co. whose principal business is to make things out of lead-such things as painters' materials (Dutch Boy Paint), babbitt metals, piano key leads, storage battery oxides. Important alloy of lead is tin, without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lead Maneuver | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

This joint-ownership ceased last July. Señor Patiño asked Lead to get out- perhaps because Señor Patiño's other English customers for tin objected to his partnership with a lead manufacturer. Regretfully, Lead's President Edward J. Cornish got out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lead Maneuver | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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