Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vanzetti worried about the raids, the imprisonment of comrades, the lethargy of the working people. He was an anarchist . . . Between the houses he could see the gleaming stretch of Plymouth Bay, the sandy islands beyond, the white dories at anchor. He was planning to go into fishing himself in partnership with a man who owned some dories. About three hundred years before, men from the west of England had first sailed into the grey shimmering bay that smelt of woods and wild grape, looking for something; liberty . . . freedom to worship God in their own manner . . . space to breathe. Thinking...
...State, I may remark, has taken the estates of numerous hanged criminals; but no one calls that going into partnership with felons...
...Dunn of the Fisk Rubber Co., on the one side, and R. E. Hightower and his son, W. H. Hightower, the Georgia textile people. It provided for $100,000,000 worth of cord tire fabric for delivery in the next ten years and gave the Goodrich people a partnership in the Hightower interests. This is the most important industrial deal Georgia has ever seen, and almost certainly the largest textile transaction ever made anywhere...
...split into the Owenoke Corporation, of which he, Percy Rockefeller and Frederick B. Adams are equal partners, to complete (according to Percy Rockefeller's testimony) his capital share thereof. The implication was that Percy Rockefeller, who had recommended the leasing, had personally profited by $50,000, the partnership third of Mr. Pryor's brokerage fee. "But only in a sense," hearers of the admission were good enough to whisper to one another...
...swampy town at the foot of Lake Michigan. It had no railroad, no canal; only a river, flowing the wrong way. But it was busy and McCormick saw that it was good. After two minutes' talk, Chicago's first mayor, William B. Ogden, bought a half partnership and McCormick proceeded to build his factory. They sold $50,000 worth of reapers for the next harvest...