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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...share for five old is not so unusual or so pleasant. Such, however, was the arrangement last week urged by P. A. S. Franklin, head of International Mercantile Marine Co. (operating the White Star,* the Red Star and other lines), who suggested reduction of capital from 120 million dollars to 30 million. Not only were common stockholders asked to turn in five shares for one, but holders of preferred were requested to surrender their holdings, on a share-for-share basis, for new preferred plus a $20 cash payment. The cash payment would be in settlement of large accrued...
...international language. British and French radio at present, however, he described as "formative." The British radio owner, for instance, has no loud speaker, no electric sets, and no choice of programs-a standard program being furnished by the government. Forward-looking Mr. Aylesworth, however, predicted an eighty million audience for his radio chain and visioned President Hoover and King George giving a joint radio address to English-speaking peoples next Thanksgiving...
...giant dirigibles twice the size of (he Graf Zeppelin. The two ships, sisters of the two huge ships which Goodyear is constructing for the U. S. Navy, are to use helium as their supporting gas, will have engines and cabins enclosed in the hulls, will cost about five million dollars each. The first is to be launched about...
Following the disclosures of Archibald Robertson Graustein, who told of International Paper & Power Co's investing more than ten million dollars in 13 newspapers (TIME, May 13), the Federal Trade Commission last week called two of the publishers who had been financed, to tell their story...
...bought stock in four of his papers, but by announcing that he had bought back such stock from I. P. & P. (TIME, May 13): and Samuel Emory Thomason, co-owner of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (Chicago Journal, Greensboro, N. C., Record, Tampa, Fla., Tribune) in which are one million Graustein dollars...