Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since 1929 automobiles and parts rate as No. 1 U. S. export. In Detroit, employment approached the 1929 peak. In Manhattan, the Automobile Manufacturers Association announced that production of 1937 models had totaled 5,110,000 cars and trucks, 12% over 1936, despite strikes. World automobile ownership was at a new high of 41,750,000 motor vehicles...
...took a chance, threw in his lot with the company, rather than the Railroad Administration, was made assistant to the president, assigned the duty of checking how the Government was using and abusing the road. He guessed right, for when the roads went back to private ownership in 1920, he was sent to St. Louis as vice president of Southern's subsidiary, Mobile & Ohio. Later at a Government hearing he was asked in what condition he found the M. & O. "It looked," he testified, "like a widow's back yard...
Lawyer Shutts as receiver in 1910. Forthwith he liquidated the paper, built upon its ruins the hardy Herald. Like Publisher Knight a successful practitioner of absentee ownership, Publisher Shutts soon had gathered on the side a rich law practice, shortly found himself a rough & ready millionaire of whom 0. O. Mclntyre delighted to write: "A visiting Duchess once asked him his favorite dish and he replied it was the Ohio River mud catfish...
...Diego's two newest food shopping centres have been named TIME and LIFE markets (no connection in ownership). Next steps on your road to fame will probably be having cigars and babies named...
Next the Cardenas-dictated Congress sent a committee to San Luis Potosi to investigate "refraction against the Government and the Constitution." The committee returned with a report of Cedillo's sins, which included failure to establish socialist education, ownership of huge haciendas, failure to guarantee privileges to C. T. M. labor unions, permitting Catholic schools. The committee recommended that the Cedillo Government be ousted. Month ago Cardenas closed the Government aviation school in Potosi, ostensibly for economy, actually to remove a possible weapon from Cedillo. The old General countered with the purchase of six fast planes from...