Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When, seven years ago, the late great Charles Albert Coffin† resigned the chairmanship of General Electric Co. (which he founded by merger, 1892) to Owen D. Young, his practical associates established in his honor the Charles A. Coffin Medal. It goes each year to a railway company which during the year has made a distinguished contribution to the development of electric railway transportation for the convenience of the public and the benefit of the electrical industry. Last week the recipient was the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad. Electric railway men consider it the most important accomplishment...
...apprentice and machinist in a foundry, a shipping clerk and city salesman in a fire extinguisher company, a purchasing agent for a coal and ice concern. Once with White, Salesman Woodruff's route became less devious, more rapid. After being made assistant to President White, he became general manager and vice president, relinquishing the managership when in 1923 he became president of Coca-Cola...
...therefore, natural that California, wishing to slow up oil production but unable to do so directly by law, should last month make a law limiting the amount of gas oil companies might allow to go to waste at their wells.* Due to varying conditions in different fields, no general ratio of gas waste to oil production could be specified; instead, the law provided that waste should be limited to a "reasonable amount" to be determined in each case by State Oil and Gas Supervisor R. D. Bush. Waste can be limited by "recycling" the gas into the ground, thereby sustaining...
...There was a point last week when the stock of General Motors showed a theoretical loss of over a billion and a quarter dollars ($1,228,000,000) from its year's high. But of all the badly hit motors, the worst hit was Chrysler. The stock had a year's high of 135, sold last week down to 52. Before the worst break, Walter P. Chrysler observed that he could see no reason for low prices in automobile stocks, considering current automobile productions and sale. Last week Mr. Chrysler pointed out that nine months' earnings...
Elected. K. T. Keller, onetime (1928) Vice President and General Manager of Dodge Brothers, Inc., to be Vice President and General Manager of Chrysler Corp...