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Word: givings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...origin to the point of distribution, handling all repacking, marking, routing, and import requirements that arise en route. It will "provide adequate and reliable information regarding foreign markets and conditions" to its customers. By assuming responsibility for the shipment while en route, Bush Service will be able to give the exporter what is known as "a continuous document of possession," so that he can borrow money on his goods while they are in transit. At present such goods are a frozen asset while in transit. A middle-west manufacturer can put goods for export on a railroad train and forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bullish Bush | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...police force, and its own courts for the settlement of internal disputes. It is the creation of one man, Builder Bush. "Dreamer" and "visioner" are two words sadly overworked in business biography, but they apply here. A broad and high forehead and a reflective cast of countenance give Irving T. Bush more the aspect of a philosopher than a successful businessman. After a preparatory school education at Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and a cruise round the world on his father's yacht, the Coronet, young Bush began to dream of his great terminal scheme. In 1902 he founded Bush Terminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bullish Bush | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Cone-Car Corp. Inland towns that have no talking cinema entertainment, nor any river to bring showboats, may soon be seeing and hearing pictures shown in theatre cars operated by Interstate Cone-Car Corp. Besides entertaining ruralists, Cone-Car will give performances on trains en route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Oberkoks. To E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. the Oberkoks Chemical Co. of Berlin last week agreed to give some stock and some cash. In return du Pont will give Oberkoks right to manufacture Duco products in its territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...thought that the little oil men were not too eager for the appointment of a Great Man as Tsar, inasmuch as Great Man's influence, presumably exerted in sympathy with the program of the large oil companies, might give production restriction an irresistible impetus. But where-ever discussion was unofficial and unpublished, delegates to the tenth annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute talked of Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, of Royal Dutch, of price wars and of invaded territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No Oil Compromise | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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