Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the increased freight rate pool and taken its last shaky collateral. Will R. F. C. let it have $25,000,000 on nothing more than its promise to pay? How R. F. C. directors answer that question and others like it will depend in large measure the success or failure...
What gives the greatest hope for R. F. C.'s loan policy and therefore its success is the automatic presence on its board of Eugene Meyer. Governor Meyer is in a sense the originator of the credit club to fight the fears and panics of a Depression (FORTUNE, Jan. 1932). As director of the War Finance Corp. after which R. F. C. is patterned almost item for item, he evolved and put to use his economic theory in the 1921 slump. He knows to a nicety how many millions or billions of dollars one needs at one's elbow...
Russia did not take news of General Semenov's plans lightly. In Tokyo. Soviet Ambassador Alexander Trojanovsky was pressing a proposal for a Russo-Japanese non-aggression treaty, with little success. At Lake Baikal, 1,000 miles northwest of Manchuria. Russia was reported to be building "strong defensive works...
...cheered Harry Ford Sinclair. For the merger was the realization of his ambition to dominate a countrywide, integrated oil company. Ever since he began buying up and reselling oil lands many years ago with never-varying success he has looked forward to a unit like Consolidated. Harry Sinclair is of that second generation of oil pioneers who found the fat plums unknown to the Standard Oil Trust when they began to study synclines and anticlines. And his legion of friends were happy, for he had vindicated his reputation as one of the best-liked...
...only a small retailing subsidiary. Prairie Pipe has about 13,000 mi. of trunk and gathering lines that honeycomb the country from the Gulf to the Great Lakes, but its business is to carry oil, not sell it. Thus, on Sinclair's retail outlets depends Consolidated success and, as a great oil salesman, that is the new president's problem...