Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Steel. Long known to be "friendly," Weirton Steel Co. of Weirton, West Va., M. A. Hanna Co., of Cleveland and Great Lakes Steel Corp. of Detroit last week merged through the formation of a holding company. Of the new company's $150,000,000 assets, outstanding will be Great Lakes Steel Co.'s new $20,000,000 80-acre plant now under construction in Detroit. Hot metal for the plant will come from nearby M. A. Hanna blast furnaces...
...water, where they will not be buried under new spawn, then to a finishing school in waters rich with food. Such a fashionable spot is Cotuit, Long Island. Here, for the last six months of its life, the oyster gains flavor. Finally, if the oyster is to be shipped great distances, it can be frozen and preserved by the Birdseye process, recently purchased by General Foods...
...corporation. Approximately $500,000,000 of the stock will be kept to provide for national expansion. Announcing the plans the organizers said: "For several years the opinion of bankers through the country has been becoming more and more favorable to the principle of group banking. . . . [It] is common in Great Britain, Canada and continental Europe ... is peculiarly adapted to American conditions as it offers the advantage of maintaining a large degree of local independence and local contacts through the maintenance of the individuality of all the constituent companies. . . . This group should be one of the leaders...
...hands of the Philistines"-as libertarians of the press viewed it-were delivered the Boston Herald and Traveler. Trustees of International Paper Co., whose purchase of these and other newspapers had excited great outcry because I. P. Co.'s owner is International Paper & Power Co. and because power companies' press activities have lately been viewed with wide alarm (TIME, April 22 et seq.), authorized the sale of I. P. Co.'s 50% stock interest in Boston Publishing Co.-a development long rumored (TIME, June...
...speaking of U. S. art students Painter Henri Matisse once said: 'They must be great artists, they must be geniuses, why cannot they content themselves with being painters. Then some day they might be good painters, perhaps...