Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 1931 occurred another event which was to be one of the most momentous in United's history. It boosted its holdings to a dominant (22.1%) interest in upper New York's giant utility, Niagara Hudson Power Corp. (assets then $784,298,192). This deal elevated someone new to a dominant position in United: an extraordinary young banker named Floyd Carlisle, who has always been thought of as a "Morgan man," and is today the No. 1 U. S. utility magnate. Carlisle then ran and still runs the St. Regis Paper Co., which happened...
...March 28, 1938 the Supreme Court settled matters by ruling the Holding Company Act valid. The first price of compliance with the Act was the resignation of Banker Whitney, two other friendly banker directors. But Niagara Hudson's Floyd Carlisle was re-elected to the United board-as the representative of "a large investing interest." United announced it would register as a holding company...
...works closely with N. P. P. A. whose biggest members are Widlar Food Products (Standard Brands), Libby, Mc-Neill & Libby and Squire Dingee. Biggest pickle States today are Wisconsin and Michigan but the oldest is New York where Dutch burghers packed dills not many years after Henry Hudson debarked from the Half Moon...
Comparatively unsung across the Hudson, the Newark Museum last week completed its array of summer attractions. Reconstructed in its big, walled garden and restored to the last detail was a one room building of local sandstone, dated 1784-the oldest schoolhouse still standing in Newark. In the airy Museum itself were: 1) a full-scale reconstruction of a Tibetan lamasery altar; 2) fine lace and silverware; 3) "The Human Body & Its Care," an exhibit featuring a skeleton; 4) American "primitive'' paintings; 5) 200 electrically driven, slow-motion models showing all the physical principles used...
Speaking at an American Association for the Advancement of Science convention in Milwaukee. Dr. Brooks recalled that, when a hurricane hit Manhattan in 1821, the tide in the Hudson River rose 13 feet in an hour. If another such storm should happen to strike during a high spring tide and with the Hudson in flood, seawater would surge over lower Manhattan, engulfing the Battery, part of the financial district; water would pour down the subway entrances and fill the tubes, trapping passengers like flies; and the automobile traffic tunnels under the Hudson would fill up from end to end with...