Word: parents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Southwestern Bell, Mountain States T. & T., Pacific T. & T., Bell Tel. Laboratories, Bell Tel. Securities, Bell Tel. of Canada, Central Union Tel., Cuban-American T. & T., Western Electric (almost exclusive manufacturing agent), 195 Broadway Corp., 205 Broadway Corp. Portions of their individual earnings go to the profit of the parent corporation...
...stock holdings in these companies now aggregate $1,027,448,629 ($991,834,103 in 1924). Total assets on the parent company's books show $1,645,565,373 ($1,478,147,221 in 1924). Over this vast system presides a comparatively young man?Walter Sherman Gifford. When he was graduated from Harvard in 1905 he became Assistant Secretary and Treasurer of the Western Electric Co. at Chicago. The Bell System for years has been encouraging alert college graduates to enter its organization. Thorough courses in telephonic practices are at the disposal of everyone. Students advance as their abilities mature...
...wonder of the trade. Then through successive absorptions and mergers the U. S. Steel Corporation was organized in 1901. Mr. Farrell still ranked as the great authority on the steel foreign trade. He became president of the U. S. Steel Products Co., the exporting agent of the parent U. S. Steel Corporation; raised its business, which he himself largely had created, from the 31 millions of 1904 to the hundreds of millions of today...
...gallantry galore, some of it quite as much to her taste as was her "Mr. A." By better luck than judgment she keeps her perch until the entries end with: "Stupendous Discovery! Mr. A. is in Venice." There, an envoi assures us, she eloped at last, later mollifying her parent and bearing Mr. A. a round dozen of lusty offspring...
THUNDER ON THE LEFT?Christopher Morley?Doubleday, Page ($2). It is a children's party, Martin's tenth birthday. The imaginative little fellow invents all sorts of games for his guests: "Stern Parent," "Quarrelsome Children." Then Phyllis, one of the girls, says that grown-ups have a wonderful time. Wouldn't it be nice to be grown up? Martin has an idea for another game, "Spies"?to find out whether grown-ups really have a good time, so as to know whether one wants ever to be grown...