Search Details

Word: fors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

By the shores of Lake Cayuga stands Cornell, partly on a low plateau deeply serrated by close-wooded hollows. The process of erosion has done well by the university, for Cornell's ravines are a joy to her poetasters, a convenience to her cavaliers, a laboratory for her scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cornell the Beautiful | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

One day in 1925 troubled directors of Trumbull Steel Co. sat around a table and wondered where they could get money enough to put their wavering company firmly on its feet. They had been sitting for a long time without finding a way out of their difficulties when, miraculously, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Catalyst in Steel | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Republic Iron & Steel is the keynote of the new structure. Organized in 1899, from a merger of 24 small steel companies, chiefly in Ohio and Indiana, the company last year went through a rapid expansion program which included acquisition of Trumbull Steel Co. and Steel & Tubes, Inc. There were also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Catalyst in Steel | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

One of the several shadows thrown before the Republic merger event was last month's (TIME, Nov. 4) resignation of Tom Mercer Girdler from the presidency of Jones & Laughlin, Pittsburgh's great "family" steel company. Last year Jones & Laughlin made Mr. Girdler president, having heard that the Eaton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Catalyst in Steel | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Essential to Mr. Eaton is the assistance of able steel men for Mr. Eaton knows little of steel and, like a chemist's catalyst by his mere presence hastens reactions in which he has otherwise no part. "I am,'' he himself has said, "only an investor." Born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Catalyst in Steel | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | Next