Word: sold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready. Long before the World War he warmed up with such rousing ditties as I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy and You're a Grand Old Flag. When the War really gave him something to pitch to, Tunesmith Cohan wrote its U. S. theme song. Over There sold around 2,000,000 copies...
...curt, crisp oldster who likes deep-sea fishing and gardening at his estate in Coraopolis Heights outside Pittsburgh, got his job in 1928, immediately began centralizing United's plants and invading foreign markets. He consolidated seven U. S. plants into four, set up affiliates in Canada, England, France, sold complete mills to Russia, Japan, England...
...rush orders from Japan and Russia, United bought a creaky mill at Wooster, Ohio at a bargain price, was all set to abandon it this year when Shibaura Engineering Co., Japan's largest electrical manufacturer, decided to build a rolling mill machinery subsidiary. Hard-headed George Ladd promptly sold them the Wooster mill and last week he announced that it was being shipped, lock, stock & barrel from Wooster to Yokohama, Japan where it will be operated by Shibaura-United, capitalized at 16,000,000 yen ($4,000,000) and 49% owned by United...
Japan has several lumbering German-made rolling mills of the type outmoded by the U. S. continuous strip process, and it has one 43-in. continuous hot and cold strip mill (not yet operating) sold it by United and Mesta Machine. But it has no way, except by U. S. purchase, of replacing any parts in this continuous mill or of building another. In theory, its new purchase from United will end some of these deficiencies. Actually Japan will still depend upon the U. S. for tailor-made ball bearings and high-grade forgings which are beyond Japanese imitative technology...
...operating control. Next year T. W. A. made $205,000 and its stockclimbed to $27.50. But in 1937 T.W.A. lost $959,000, in 1938 $773,000. Its stock dropped to $4, was last week at $8 when Lehman Bros, announced with an audible sigh of relief that it had sold out to Jack Frye and Paul Richter...