Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Japan. They expect to meet within a fortnight to grapple with the job of drafting a charter for Europe's new International Bank of (reparations) Settlements. Though not the largest bank in the world, the I. B. S. will have the world's broadest scope. It is the cornerstone of the Young Plan, which has now superseded the Dawes Plan. It will act as the clearing house through which Germany will pay reparations for 57 years on the instalment plan. It will progressively capitalize future payments in advance by selling reparations bonds secured on Germany...
Baker Library may unquestionably be regarded as one of the outstanding collections in the field of business and economics. Its possessions are already large; its scope is wide: and it has begun to acquire a flavor of its own--a feature which of itself indicates approaching maturity. This collection has been brought together in the last twenty years, starting from practically nothing. Its major development is a lasting contribution by Mr. Charles C. Eaton to the enrichment of the Harvard School of Business Administration--a contribution which is the more notable by reason of the fact that the Librarian...
...much from increases in gross income as from decreases in operating costs. Railroads are being more efficiently run, and by more capable managers. Nor is there any more typical example of the modern rail executive than Southern Pacific's Paul Shoup, man most responsible for Southern Pacific's present scope and vigor...
...survey, Mr. Morgan offered them the Cumberland Light & Power Co. for the bargain price of $60,000. Borrowing the money, the partners bought the company, sold it some years later for $500,000. It was the profit on this operation that established Stone & Webster as a company of national scope...
...first discussed the food merger, the Fleischmann distributing system was an important consideration. The only rival for speed and regularity admitted by Fleischmann in daily national distribution is the U. S. Post-Office. The only foodstuff rivals are the various milk companies, none of which are nationwide in scope. Fleischmann's yeast is delivered fresh every day to more than 30,000 bakeries and to 250,000 groceries, delicatessens, hotels and other retail outlets. No jobbers are used?delivery is direct from 900 Fleischmann agencies. Fleischmann's operates a transportation subsidiary which has 200 railroad cars, 2,000 trucks...