Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corp. of Delaware, however, might be called shocking in so famed a Liberal. Incorporated early in the present year, United Corp. was formed as a holding company for the Morgan, Drexel, Bonbright and American Superpower holdings in United Gas Improvement, Public Service Corp. of New Jersey, and Mohawk Hudson Power Corp. The company was designed to "foster closer relations between the great public utility systems of the east"-i. e., to promote utility mergers and consolidations. What would Brown Derby think? How could the Nation approve? It must be conceded, however, that Investor Broun has doubtless profited tidily...
...name, a new figure, a new power, arrived last week in Chicago. All were bound up in the person of Homer Guck (pronounced "Guke"). Upon the resignation of Merrill Church Meigs as publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, William Randolph Hearst appointed Mr. Guck to the post...
Following the disclosures of Archibald Robertson Graustein, who told of International Paper & Power Co's investing more than ten million dollars in 13 newspapers (TIME, May 13), the Federal Trade Commission last week called two of the publishers who had been financed, to tell their story...
...Harold Hall, former business manager of the New York Telegram. They told of purchasing four papers: the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, the Columbia (S. C.) Record, the Spartanburg (S. C.) Herald and Journal. All purchases were for cash and the entire sum, $870,000, was supplied by International Paper & Power Co. In exchange they gave their notes which were secured by the stock of the newspapers as collateral, although the actual certificates were not turned over. In no case did they tell the sellers who was putting up the money...
Dislikers of the Power Trust remarked that although International Paper & Power Co. does not sell power in the Carolinas and Georgia, the papers purchased by LaVarre and Hall are all in or near the Piedmont waterpower section of the southeast...