Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secretary not formally garbed. Doubling my fist I made contact with the loutish doorman's jaw, passed within. When he instituted suit against me for assault next day, I retained to defend me the celebrated barrister, onetime Finance Minister de Monzie of France. My extravagances include the ownership of a fleet of airplanes which bring to me, wherever I may be, fresh caviar from Russia, poulards from Toulouse and other delicacies. I travel habitually in an airplane fitted up as a business office. I inherited a large fortune from my father but have doubled it many times in Brazilian...
Similarly Postmaster General Harry S. New. Last week he called for purchasers' bids on the two airmail routes which remain under Federal ownership-the 2,665-mile stretch from New York to San Francisco, the 796-mile overnight route between Chicago and New York. It had never been the Government's intention to conduct these services permanently. Fourteen other routes, totaling 5,553 miles one way, had been opened by the Government and all turned over to private contractors. Now Mr. New judged commercial aviation to be strong enough, and the feasibility, the practicability of airmail carrying...
Sirs: If TIME'S own analysis of its circulation is accurate, the roster of Fierce-Arrow owners must be largely represented among TIME'S subscribers. I wonder how many of them, taking pride in their ownership, feel slighted because in a footnote TIME (Sept. 27) stated that a certain motor car- was reputed to be the most powerful stock car built in the United States, and gave its horsepower output as 92. Owners of Fierce-Arrow's larger car, the Dual-Valve Six, know that the Fierce-Arrow engine develops more than 100 horsepower. These owners must...
...certain Dr. Pemberton, and called Coca-Cola. Various people had owned and controlled Dr. Pemberton's in. fant company. During the first year 25 gallons had been sold and $46 spent for advertising. In 1889, Mr. Candler got a part interest in the company; in 1900 full ownership. In 1919 he sold the Coca-Cola Company, a Georgia corporation, to a group of capitalists organized xinto the Coca-Cola Company, a Delaware Corporation, for $25,000,000. Before the sale Mr. Candler's private fortune was estimated at between forty and fifty millions. He had fastened a prodigious...
...similar condition could be brought about in the bituminous coal industry in 15 years and it is safe to say that if the employe-ownership principle were applied to all industry, America would within one generation become a strike-proof nation...