Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since his court-martial, he has been living on his private estate "Boxwood," at Middleburg, Va., on the east slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains and not far west of Washington. Nominally he goes in for farming and horse & stock raising. While doing that and making frequent trips to Europe and Asia he has kept up his bombardment of the Government's air program. At first his attacks were heavy barrages of magazine articles and pamphlets. Lately he has directed only a desultory fire...
...road, with one arm running from Toledo to Wheeling, W. Va., the other from Cleveland to Zanesville, Ohio, the two crossing at Brewster, Ohio. The Van Sweringens, who consider the Wheeling & Lake Erie a desirable unit in their proposed Fourth Trunk Line, have acquired control of the road through stock held by the Nickel Plate and Alleghany Corp.* But Frank Taplin, largest single stockholder and leader of a powerful minority group of Wheeling & Lake Erie stockholders opposed to Van Sweringen denomination, has also a Trunk Line plan. Less ambitious than the Van Sweringens, the Taplins plan what is primarily...
When Wheeling & Lake Erie stock holders met at Cleveland last week, the Taplins argued that the Van Sweringens should not be allowed to vote their Nickel Plate and Alleghany holdings, inasmuch as the Interstate Commerce Commission last month (TIME, April 29) ordered the Nickel Plate to "divest" itself of its Wheeling stock. Therefore, the Taplins argued, the Van Sweringens had no right to vote stock which they had acquired and were holding in defiance of the I. C. C. Compromising, the Van Sweringens voted to adjourn the meeting until August 1, at which date the legality of their Wheeling holdings...
Controlling stock in the Scripps-Howard chainpapers is held today by Robert Paine Scripps, 33, son of the founder. The active chainmaker is Roy Wilson Howard, spruce, spry...
Employes of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp., who are solvent to the extent of $30 or more, can become Sinclair stockholders at the $30-per-share figure (Sinclair closed last week at 38). The employes' stock plan, approved at last week's annual corporation meeting, set aside 225,000 shares of common stock, 75,000 shares of which are offered during the present year. Another 75,000 will be offered next year and the final 75,000 in 1931. These future shares will be priced at 10% less than the average Stock Exchange price for the last three months...