Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest architectural etchers of all times. Printed in brownish and often on green paper, which Meryon himself prepared, the etchings are unusually brilliant. There are 20 eachings in the collection given by Mr. Marvin, and of these there are two and even four impressions from a plate in its different stages of development...
...pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate...
While the Nickel Plate consolidation has held the headlines, another railway merger involving an even greater mileage has been quietly passing through its preliminary stages. When the Interstate Commerce Commission meets next month, the Missouri Pacific Railroad will apply for permission to acquire the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway, by the issuance of $18,000,000 15-year 7% notes. With the N. O., T. & M., Missouri Pacific will acquire its subsidiary, the International-Great Northern. Missouri Pacific already controls the Texas & Pacific through ownership of $23,703,000 of its $24,676,000 preferred...
...that the Van Sweringens have made public their formal offer where by the stocks of the New Nickel Plate road (TiME, July 7, 28, Aug. 11, 18) will be exchanged for the securities of its constituent companies, the old question of the rights of minority stockholders has again come to the fore...
Undoubtedly in the past, managers of American railway and other mer gers have not always provided adequately for the minority stockholder. On the other hand, minority stock-holders have sometimes adopted a purely obstructive attitude in order to be bought off. In the present Nickel Plate case, neither extreme will probably be witnessed...