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...ascertain the mental ages of the children by means of having them explain various pictures. One, portraying a loving couple with supplies, being paddled down a stream in a canoe was explained as a kidnaping, a picnic, a couple sick of life and about to jump off at Niagara, and just a picture of a boy friend and a girl friend. Loyalty to the family likeness upset one test when it was found that a little girl of fire was insisting that the homely woman in the test was best looking because it looked almost exactly like...
Heads of the great insurance companies ignored the Borah proposals, muttered they were not in business for philanthropy. But the problem will emerge for discussion Oct.11 when the Mortgage Bankers Association meets at Niagara Falls and Deane W. Trick of Bankers Life Co. of Des Moines speaks on "The Unwilling Farmer...
During the process shrewd, paunchy Mr. Hopson lost only one property, Rochester Gas & Electric, long coveted by Floyd Leslie Carlisle's Niagara Hudson Power Corp., and lost only voting control of that (TIME, July 25). To reimburse the banks which had financed its purchase by a group of Rochester business men, an $8,500,000 bond issue is contemplated. Though the New York Public Service Commission lashed Mr. Hopson for "milking" Staten Island Edison and refused to sanction the sale of $8,500,000 long-term bonds to pay off notes, he promptly offered to exchange the notes...
Shredded Wheat For 35 years after a dyspeptic lawyer named Henry D. Perky saw another dyspeptic eating cooked whole wheat and helped himself to the idea, the course of Shredded Wheat Co. was profitable and untroubled. Many a visitor to Niagara Falls was shown through the model bakery by Shredded Wheat's Miss Blumreich and went home to add more dollars to the profits of Lawyer Perky's successors. In 1928 National Biscuit Co. bought Shredded Wheat, threw its huge organization into an effort to sell even more shredded wheat biscuits. Breakfast Food Manufacturer Will Keith Kellogg...
...last week lost voting control of Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. to Rochester businessmen as part of a plan by which Guaranty Trust Co., Chase National Bank and almost every bank in Rochester advanced $8,500,000 to the company. Rochester Gas is considered a fine property. Niagara Hudson Power Corp.'s Floyd Leslie Carlisle has eyed it with approval. Acquisition of it by A. G. & E. in 1929 disturbed the Morgan-Bonbright-Carlisle utility group...