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Enter Raskob. John Jacob Raskob, quiescent financially since he left General Motors to manage the Smith campaign for President, has bought a large stock interest in Aero Supply Manufacturing Co., Inc., called the "oldest aviation accessory enterprise in the country." Aero Supply owns Standard Automatic Products Co. of Corry, Pa., and National Steel Products Co. of Ohio. Rumored: a big Raskob-headed air corporation...
...York State power companies (TIME, June 24), only New York Staters were deeply interested. When, last week, final approval of the long-pending merger of Continental Oil and Marland Oil companies was interpreted as first step in a national Morgan oil corporation, public interest was wider but still quiescent. But also announced last week was a Morgan-managed merger of Fleischmann Co., Royal Baking Powder Co., and E. W. Gillett, Ltd.* At that the country sat up and took sharp notice...
Comment. The aged Don Alvaro de Figueroa y Torres, Conte de Romanones, several times Prime Minister of Spain, and leader of the once great but now quiescent Liberal Party, commented last week at Madrid...
Professor Lipman believes that the ancient germ spores have been sealed up in minute cases, similar to the cocoons in which larvae rest. It is well known that microbes can live through great heat or cold, and remain quiescent for long periods. But the age of Professor Lipman's rods astounded even him. He duplicated the experiment with organisms from Pliocene rocks, one to two million years...
...interest in competitions; the pressure of studies, which is making "grinds" out of undergraduates, and the glowing attractions of Boston ball-rooms and beaches and bootleggers. Nichols dismisses these superficialties, and feels the pulse of the old spirit of activity for the sake of personal glory, and finds its quiescent. He then arrives at the conclusion that the few faithful who report for competition do so because they want...