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Dates: during 1920-1929
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On June 29 these holdings were valued at $287, 919,008. United Gas Improvement and Public Service of New Jersey (its subsidiary) are both Mellon-controlled, and are expansions of the original United Gas Improvement Company which supplied gas to Philadelphia. Commonwealth and Southern Corp. is a holding company for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Morgan Power | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Employes of U. S. structural concerns have lately had much opportunity to improve their golf, their bridge or their gardens but not their incomes. With some of the larger builders business has continued to be good but, generally speaking, the building industry has been, and remains, in a notable slump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Week's Statistic: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

A more imaginative man might have killed himself. A more unscrupulous man might have sailed for South America or Africa. A more logical man might have surrendered to the nearest representative of the law. But Charles Delos Waggoner, quixotic President of the Bank of Telluride, Col. adopted none of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Banker Found | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

At Grand Rapids, Mich., the city pound manager put a cat into the asphyxial chamber with some dogs. The cat arched its back and spit for a fight. Its fur was bristling. .The manager slammed the chamber door and turned on the gas. The box exploded, injuring human attendants. Another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cat Static | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

The perfect industrial metal must be stronger than steel, lighter than aluminum, heat resisting, tough. Metallurgists have not compounded it. But some 6,000 of them felt that they were approaching the goal as they listened to metallurgical discourses of the National Metal Congress held last week at Cleveland, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Metal Congress | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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