Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortnight ago the Turkish Consul-General at New York told the Merchants' Association that his country was "desirous to come in touch with societies interested in hogs." Because pig-flesh is forbidden food to Moslems, he explained, Turkey is becoming overrun with wild swine. Perhaps some U. S. concern would like the concession for de-pigging Turkey...
...corporate title the "& Sons" is far from being a fiction. The four Smith boys now run the business, Jay as President, Bernard as Engineer, Owen as Buyer, Hamilton as General Factotum. Jay, who resembles his father but is more businesslike, was a real water baby. He ran passengers in his father's launch before he was old enough to start the engine; his aquatic stunts earned him the title of "the baby water wizard." As Gar Wood's mechanic he won many a race in boats built by his father.* Chris-Crafts tenders are popular among yachtsmen (General...
...Productions, Inc. would soon produce a sound movie with a Wayne theme song. And, they pointed out, royalties from the sale of copies and records would go not only to Fischer and Feist but also to Radio Corp.'s NBC (actually Radio Corp. owns 50% of NBC, General Electric owns 30%, Westinghouse owns...
...Blue Ridge and of Shenandoah Corp., companion investment trust formed by the same interests, appears somewhat ironic. In August, Blue Ridge had announced a policy of exchanging its shares for shares of other corporations, had thus indirectly endorsed such quotations as 238 for U. S. Steel, 395 for General Electric, 349 for Detroit Edison. In September Shenandoah had announced an intensive selling campaign by which Shenandoah and Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. shares would be sold to small investors. Yet potent and prosperous appeared, last summer, both Blue Ridge and Shenandoah. Their securities and the securities in their portfolios* were rising...
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. Today he heads the Patiño Mines and Enterprises Consolidated, is one of the world's richest men, with a personal income exceeding that of the Bolivian Government. Although as Ambassador to France Patiño divides his time between Paris and his Biarritz castle, he is still...