Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a U. S. citizen, little acquainted with the individuals who head U. S. corporations, has at least long known that venerable HALEY FISKE was president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Last month, however, Mr. Fiske died (TIME, March 11). Now the U. S. citizen, asked to name Metropolitan'...
Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, K. B. E., head of Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. and Shell Transport & Trading Co., Ltd., sat at a large mahogany table and ate an Edam cheese sandwich. Around the same table some 20 potent oilmen sat, discussed petroleum and how not to produce too much...
Largest European corporation is I. G. Farbenindustrie A. G. (TIME, April 1), largest European earner as well with its $25,000,000 (1927) net income. Yet, though 25 million is no puny amount in any man's hemisphere, U. S. corporations would hardly stand awed at its magnitude. Of some...
Of U. S. corporations last week reporting their 1928 earnings (it would seem that the early reports on the first quarter of 1929 would be arriving before the 1928 list is complete) public utilities were particularly well represented. Great are utilities and large their earnings, but for some reason the...
Jenkins Television Corp. was announced last winter (TIME, Dec. 17), as a $10,000,000 company with Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. as a director. Last week it reported on its first four months of corporate life. Scanners of its balance sheet were somewhat puzzled to account for the ten...