Word: inc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highly developed that socialites leave their expensive cars in their garages and go to parties in inconspicuous small cars. Kidnapped this year in St. Louis were strapping Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley Jr. (TIME, May 11) and Adolphus Busch Orthwein. 13, grandson of President August A. Busch of Anheuser-Busch. Inc. (TIME, Jan. 12). Kidnapped near Chicago four months ago was a gambler named James Hackett, whose seizure Investigator Roche blamed on the Burke gang. Hackett was freed...
...often sent over a leased telephone wire to a radio studio, thence sent out over the air. Because it is easy to transmit music by wire, with a loudspeaker at the receiving end to amplify it, it occurred to Robert Miller, onetime engineer for Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., that such music might be saleable. With other engineers as associates and himself as president, he formed Wired Music in Manhattan, announced that he would sell music to hotels, clubs, private homes. Wires, leased by the mile, would hook up New York, Boston, Chicago, Buffalo and many another city. Subscribers would...
Business men were puzzled as to why Mr. Hearst should require another financial structure of such size. First guess was that it might have been conceived to create a market for the stock of Hearst Consolidated Publications Inc., the $100,000,000 company which Mr. Hearst formed last year to take over eleven of his most profitable publishing enterprises. Others, pondering the scope of Mr. Hearst's interests, believed he was planning to go into the security business...
When Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc. strode onto the financial pages in July 1930, it caused a sensation both by its purpose and its method. Mr. Hearst was not only selling the public a share in some of his publications but was selling it direct, without benefit of bankers. Two million shares of non-voting 7% "A" stock ($25 par) were placed on sale at Hearst publication offices. A few banks handled the stock, but only as agents, not underwriters. Of these 2,000,000 shares, only some 775,000 or $19,395,000 worth had been sold...
Roosevelt Field, Inc. sued him. He filed a countersuit for the $900,000 which he claimed to have lost by not reaching the sale promptly. In his suit, he charged that the plane had been forced down at Jacksonville owing to a defective compass, an inexperienced pilot, and that, even without these handicaps, it would have been incapable of flying to Miami in 14 hours. Roosevelt Field, Inc. last week asked the court for permission to change the name of the defendant in Passenger Richey's suit to Roosevelt Flying Corp. which operated his plane; claimed that Roosevelt Field...