Word: parental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canada. A sharp, aggressive onetime tire salesman, he made his product look as much like a champagne bottle as possible (green glass, gold-foil collar), went after the public with a svelte and costly advertising campaign. The results so astounded his Canadian bosses that they sold the parent company to him on the spot. But Parry Dorland Saylor soon struck a snag. He wanted control of a minority interest owned by four rich young Manhattan socialites including John Wanamaker Jr. and William Rhinelander Stewart Jr. The young men slept all morning, went to parties in the evening, could...
Ford of England used to own 60% of the stock in each of the Continental Ford companies, the other 40% having been offered to citizens of the respective countries of incorporation. In the last year, however, the parent company is understood to have sold all its holdings in Ford of Germany and some stock in Ford of France. Losses realized on these sales are reported to account for the fact that Ford of England's profits of about $2,400,000 last year were lower than in 1933. But Sir Percival's territory remains all of Europe...
...attention to Midvale's significance in calculating net quick assets but not, in SEC's opinion, emphatically enough, and never at all in the audited balance sheet itself. Said SEC's report: "Even if ... assets of wholly-owned subsidiaries were considered to be those of the parent, the quick assets of this partly-owned subsidiary would have to be segregated in order to determine accurately the working capital position of the parent company, a fact essential to any adequate analysis of the position ... [of the] bonds...
...illustration of the modern method of tone production on this type of instrument whereby pressures are more concentrated about the mouth rather than throughout the head. Still the old notion persists that the oboe player eventually goes crazy, for only recently I had to calm such anxieties in the parent of a promising young musician...
...cells might contain A or B, or both (AB) or neither (O). Thus, according to their blood, there are four kinds of people in the world-A, B, AB, and 0. Every father and mother transmit definite blood factors to their child. Thus the offspring of parents with O and O blood can have only 0 blood and not A, B or AB blood. The child of 0 and A parents might have either 0 or A blood but not B or AB blood. If one parent has A blood and the other B, their child might have...