Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks ago, active Prime Minister Maniu struck a vital blow at the remaining Bratianu power by decentralizing local administrations, cutting the influence of the Central Bucharest ministries, still Bratianu appointees, in rural Rumania...
...proposed exchange offer whereby it would take over the half-billion-dollar United Light & Power Co., operating in nine middle States and Manitoba, Canada...
...That it had acquired more than 90% of the common stock of Commonwealth Power Corp., Penn-Ohio Edison and Southeastern Power & Light, operating in eleven States, with total assets of over a billion dollars...
...offer to exchange its stock for that of Columbus Electric & Power Co. of Georgia and Alabama. (Columbus stock, on the New York curb, jumped from 60 to 120 last month...
Ford. Interviewed by Electrical World, Henry Ford preached frank monopolism. "People talk about a power trust," said he. "I only wish that there actually were a power trust, a central directing organization for the development of every power source in the country." He saw no evil in exploitation of power resources for private profit. "The real profit," said he, "is not what the promoters get but what the country gets...