Word: trust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became first brewer, then sugar refiner. Then, as now, American Sugar Refining Co. was the chief unit in the industry. Father Claus drew a line around the Pacific Coast territory, told the sugar trust that the coast belonged to Spreckels. When the enemy ventured across the line, Father Claus decided on an object lesson. He invaded the East, built the world's largest sugar refinery at Philadelphia, brought the trust to terms, sold the refinery for $7,000,000. American Sugar Refining Co. stayed away from the Pacific coast...
...soon became, in sequential progression, star Boarder, among other things. At one point during his religio-business career he was about to leave business to become a "Y" secretary, but a factory manager died, Ramsey took the job of expanding the plant. As a director of the potent Cleveland Trust Co., onetime president of the Cleveland Aluminum Rolling Mills Co., Cleveland Foundry Co., financial tactician of the 1924 Y. M. C. A. drive for $3,000,000, ubiquitous figure in all Cleveland drives, onetime national treasurer of the Association, Y-Worker Ramsey qualifies also as a tycoon. Said many...
Readers of the Christian Science Monitor, who have grown to trust the judgment and admire the style of its Contributing Editor, Willis J. Abbot, gaped aghast at what he had cabled to London as correspondent for Britannia...
Curly-haired Buddy Rogers is a janitor's son. He does not know this because when his mother died the county supervisors refused to trust his rearing to his drunken father and put him in an orphanage. Years have passed and the father, sober enough now to hold the job he has gotten in a Princeton dormitory, gets word that his son has been given the thousand dollars he has sent and will arrive to enter Princeton about the same time as the letter. He is advised not to reveal his identity...
...happily for Cleveland, President William Robert Wilson of the Detroit Guardian Trust Co., a onetime automobile executive, planned with Detroit, Chicago. Manhattan and Cleveland bankers to enter commercial aviation. They formed the Great Lakes Aircraft Corp. with their thoughts on the Martin factory and airfield about to be abandoned in Cleveland. Glenn L. Martin was willing to sell his property, leases and restricted rights to his patents for about $2.000,000. Last week the deal was closed. Great Lake? Aircraft will build medium-sized planes to carry passengers and mail...