Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flushed with victory, the coalition troopers pushed on toward Calcium Carbide-ville, only to suffer a bad reverse on the barbed wire entanglements of the Power Trust. (Power companies supply electricity to manufacture calcium in plants widely scattered over the U. S.) Thirteen Democrats with power or carbide plants in their States broke ranks in the face of the enemy, refused to charge. The assault to halve the ifz'-per-lb. rate was repulsed by the regular Republicans...
...Steel broke through 200, reeled down to a closing figure of 186. All the blue chips of the late bull market were hammered and sliced-the better the stock, the bigger the break. On this day A. T. & T. fell 24 points; Columbia Carbon, 61; Consolidated Gas, 20; Electric Power & Light, 13; General Electric, 47; Eastman Kodak, 41; Otis Elevator, 60; New York Central, 22; Montgomery Ward, 15; U. S. Industrial Alcohol, 39; Standard Gas & Electric, 40, etc. etc. etc. ... In Rio de Janeiro the coffee market already frightened (TIME, Oct. 21), closed altogether. But in Chicago a bushel...
...many tragically cruel, never end? As shades of Tuesday evening fell, it seemed again that the worst was past. A belated ticker recorded gains in significant stocks. New York Central was three points above Monday's close. Hysteria, it was hoped, had met its master in the Banking Power of the U. S., which appeared to have bought a good proportion of U. S. Industry...
...There are patches of it in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri. It almost blots out New Jersey and New Hampshire, parts of Pennsylvania and Kentucky. It is the design of the fields of operation of the public utility companies over which Samuel Tnsull, financial father of the Chicago opera, rules as power primate...
...looks like a man of money. You would think him a financier, and not inaccurately. But he is also a power in the social and not wealth-despising Protestant Episcopal Church. His name is Monell Sayre. His eminence in the church began when it became apparent that Episcopalian ministers should be pensioned and famed Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts, stepping in where others had failed, raised $9,000,000. Bishop Lawrence's aide in that effort, then secretary, now executive vice president of the Pension Fund of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was and is substantial, trim-trotting Monell Sayre...