Word: hydra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before San Francisco's hydra-headed Transamerica Corp. (see p. 78) took it over in 1941 and absorbed a good part of its installment-paper portfolio, Pacific Finance was the largest auto-finance company on the West Coast, with total loans of more than $100,000,000. Since the war, like all finance companies, its business has consisted largely in writing down its assets as auto owners paid for the cars they had bought before Detroit went...
...slowly narrowed the big industries in which Thurman Arnold could move. He shifted his strategy, attacked trusts for their sins against defense, smashed Hydra-headed I. G. Farbenindustrie's patent hold on the U.S. But soon he was back in essential war industries, striking out for his ideal of free pricing. The Army & Navy began to complain of his robust interference. Thurman Arnold went right ahead building up a case against railroads for rate fixing; Attorney General Francis Biddie turned thumbs down. Arnold's ride as a trust buster was over...
...there were more heads to the hydra than any Hercules could lop: > Strikes, though still infinitesimal, were up 85% from the month before...
...Promise. For months Trust-Buster Arnold has tried to break up a patents cartel formed in 1929 by Jersey Standard and Germany's Hydra-headed I. G. Farbenindustrie. Last week Standard signed a consent decree, released 2,000 patents royalty-free, took a $50,000 fine. In return, Thurman Arnold agreed to withdraw the most sinister conclusion in his complaint: that Standard had held up the U.S. synthetic rubber program...
...signatures on each item. Jobs overlapped. In rubber, for instance: tall, bald Arthur Newhall handled the problem of rubber imports (there are virtually none). Production of synthetic rubber was technically under the command of WPB's raw materials Boss William L. ("Bill") Batt, was actually in charge of Hydra-handed Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, who doles out the dough. Used rubber was under Sears, Roebuck's J. Lessing Rosenwald. Rubber rationing was under Price Chief Leon Henderson...