Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through sharing* (TIME, Sept. 13) in a $441,000 lubricant by which $7,000,000 was within 72 hours transferred from the Alien Property Custodian's custody to the Societe Suisse pour Valeurs de Metaux, This $7,000,000 constituted the German-owned stock (49%) of the American Metal Co. which was held, after seizure, by Alien Property Custodian A. Mitchell Palmer as "trustee." The stock was seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act passed in 1917, which provided that the President should appoint an Alien Property Custodian to hold property in this country owned by citizens...
...recovered by one Richard Merton, chairman of the board of the Metallbank and president of the Metallgesellschaft, two German Corporations, both allegedly† (TIME, Sept. 13) the original stockholders of the original 49% of seized American Metal Co. stock. He was in addition a stockholder of the Société Suisse pour Valeurs de Metaux. Hence the Government alleges that the Societe Suisse at the time of the claim was but a holding company for the Merton family interests, that that family retained majority control in it, and that through its recovery of the Merton equity...
...original Harding man"), onetime (1921-24) Attorney General, and lesser blossom Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, were to go on trial in the Federal Court in Manhattan for conspiracy to defraud the Government of their "unprejudiced services" by accepting a bribe of $391,000 in the American Metal Co. case. The charges which they will have to explain...
...That the Alien Property Custodian (Mr. Miller) seized certain stock of the American Metal Co. during the War as German property, sold...
...Nevertheless, I was always con scious and I saw the queer, deep, dark blue of a cloudless and mistless sky; a far deeper blue than that seen from the earth's sur face. . . . I could feel the tightening of the contracting metal parts of the plane." (Contraction was due to intense cold). When his barograph registered 12,800 metres, Pilot Callizo descended, hovering at 500 metres, to collect his shocked faculties. After inspection of his instruments, officials credited him with having flown higher than any man- 12,422 metres (40,820 ft., nearly 8 mi., two-fifths...