Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steel and Bethlehem Steel no longer so pre-eminently first and second largest steel companies that the position of third largest carried with it only a statistical distinction. Last week a portion of the merger rumors came true in the formation of Republic Steel Co., Eaton consolidation which, though still considerably smaller even than Bethlehem Steel, moved indisputably into the third position and contained the potentialities of a still larger company wth the possible addition of other Eaton companies as yet uncombined...
...attempted to fight this rivalry. At the height of phonograph popularity in 1922. they bought the J. & C. Fisher Co. and Amphion Co., manufacturers of player-piano actions. Following acquisition Amphion perfected the Ampico reproducing attachments and although the manufacture of player-pianos has been practically discontinued, Ampicos are still distributed to Chickering, Knabe, Mason & Hamlin for installation in their most pretentious grands. This year American Piano added a complete line of radios to their sales list in the twelve American retail stores, in the hope that dwindling piano sales might be offset. But the high price of pianos...
...Irving Trust Co. has announced that the company will continue to operate so that the Metropolitan will still be Knabe equipped, the Chickering will go to many a home and artists will continue to use Mason & Hamlin. And stockholders were somewhat cheered by the assurance in the receivership petition that although the company at present was "unable to meet its matured debts by reason of lack of working capital and is unable to establish adequate means to borrow money." American Piano is "still solvent...
...uses his prestige as a revolutionary soldier to bully his comrades and preempt their women. When Nina, whose "bourgeois" yearnings for wifehood and maternity have not been stifled by propaganda, tells Terekhine she is pregnant, he curses. When he has persuaded her to have an abortion and she still pesters him, he murders...
...married, thus laying themselves open to prosecution for bigamy. Of course the wayward husband eventually returns. In an attempt to blackmail Michael, who is by this time a prosperous novelist, the scoundrel's insolence leads to a scuffle and he falls dead of a heart attack. Still seeking the highest moral good, Michael and Mary decide to conceal the truth of the incident from the courts for their son's sake. A decade later, when Michael explains the whole history to the boy and informs him that he is a bastard, the boy offers not the slightest objection...