Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...structure and functions. Examiner Brookhart testified that 76 companies, most of which North American controls, servicing 687 communities, produce about 7% of the electric power consumed in the U. S. Its holdings are particularly heavy in Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, California, District of Columbia. Its largest single owner is Harrison Williams, New York utilitarian, who holds 27% of its stock through New Empire Corp. Other witnesses gave North American a fair bill of industrial health on the ground that it allows its subsidiaries free operating control, does not charge them exorbitant management fees...
Prouder and richer was Louis Fisher of Stockton, Calif., Budweiser's owner, who also won with him in 1928 and whose other frog. Pride of the San Joaquin, won las: year, establishing the record of 12 ft. 10-in. (TIME, June...
Died. Walter Ansel Strong, 47, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, president of The Chicago Daily News Inc. which bought it in 1925 after the death of its owner Victor Fremont Lawson for over $13,500,000 (a record price for a daily newspaper); of coronary occlusion (stoppage of blood vessels at the heart); in Winnetka, Ill. A onetime (1926-27) director of the Associated Press, he was a guarantor of the Chicago Civic Opera, a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Publisher Strong also bought (1929) and consolidated with the News the Chicago Journal, Chicago's oldest daily...
Luigi Fernandi, owner of the lion (name: Prince), thought that was well enough. When the bloodthirsty crowd yelled for more spectacle, he demurred. He was arrested and Prince was returned to the ring. As Prince leaped again to meet the bull's charge, a horn impaled him, killed him, to the huge delight of the San Luis Potosians...
...many masters. Yet last week Essex County was more excited than ever before when it heard that Boreham House will soon have yet another master walking through its handsome halls, inspecting its heronry (one of four in the County), tramping its grounds. For Boreham House's new owner, it was revealed last week, is Henry Ford. His English factory is also in Essex...