Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Startling to Europeans, but confirming their general impression of what U. S. motoring is like, was this prediction by President Stout: "More attention is going to be paid to crash-padding of the interior. . . . Crashes are going to be a part of automobile ownership and the time has come when they must be taken into consideration in design." Very soon every U. S. car, President Stout hopes, will not only be well padded inside but all projections against which passengers may be flung and gashed if they crash, will be smoothed and rounded, "doing away with all sharp corners, exposed...
...Ford is not an officer of Ford Motor Co. His only connection with the corporation is his ownership of 58% of the stock and a seat on the board of directors. With him on the board sits his son, President Edsel Bryant Ford, who owns the rest of the stock, and Vice President Peter E. Martin, one of the few survivors of the countless upheavals in Ford management. There is a secretary and assistant treasurer, and an assistant secretary of the corporation, but no other title within the whole Ford organization. Henry Ford does not believe in titles...
...bring cheap electricity to every home by Federal coordination of all power transmission not only in the Valley but in the entire U. S. Lining up with the Roosevelt "yardstick" policy, the Committee was nonetheless careful to point out that such unification would not necessarily mean extension of Government ownership. It would, indeed, benefit the private producer by eliminating duplication of plant and equipment, creating a larger and steadier market, opening up new sources of energy. But: "During the next 20 years [the Government] could profitably spend $1,000,000,000 on river works in the Mississippi Valley, half...
...according to the Supreme Court, belongs not to a soulless corporation but to a flesh and blood minstrel, David Graves George of Gretna, Va." But, unfortunately for Minstrel George, his wife, his 14 children and the World-Telegram editorial writer, the Supreme Court had not undertaken to decide the ownership of the ballad. All it-The Press estimated the royalties as high as $2,000,000. A more likely figure is $375,006.* had done was to pass on a technical kink and deny the legality of Victor's belated appeal from the trial court to the Circuit Court...
Born in 1865, George Riddell was admitted to the bar at 23, and that very same year turned to journalism when he bought part-ownership in the local Western Mail. The turn of the Century found him in London, the proprietor of News Of The World. An insatiably curious man, with a reputation of being able to bewitch a stranger's life story from him in ten minutes, Publisher Riddell capitalized on the universal craving for information about crises in other people's lives. Few British dailies have Sunday editions, and in 1900 few dailies anywhere had learned the trick...