Word: owns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Washington front, another gun began firing from an unsuspected emplacement. For probably the first time in his checkered career Cyrus Eaton found he had old, reforming Senator George Norris on his side. "The Power Trust." said the frail Senator in a prepared statement, "is caught at its old...
...sense. Electric rates are not based on per share stock prices; they are based on the total amount of money invested (or supposed to be invested) in the business. Nor could Commonwealth & Southern rob Consumers Power even by buying its stock at 1? a share: Commonwealth & Southern already owns 100% of the common stock of its subsidiary, and regardless of price will still own 100% after the transaction it proposes. For that matter, Commonwealth & Southern would lose nothing by paying $1,000,000 a share...
In the early 1920s, Martin-Parry Corp. was a big U. S. manufacturer of commercial car bodies, for a few years grossed up to $5,000,000 annually. Its founder and president is tall, fretting, blue-eyed Frederick M. Small, son of the town's richest man, who went...
In Chicago, meanwhile, Stone set up a firm of his own which was as brilliant commercially as the old partnership had been artistically. In 1900 he got a best seller, George Ade's More Fables in Slang. Next year he got another in George Barr McCutcheon's Graustark...
Prize-winners in their own countries, two foreign novels will not likely be so well prized by U. S. readers: