Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government attached
funds of the giant I. G. Farbenindustrie, German dye trust. Indicted
last winter with several U.S. companies for violating the antitrust
laws in the magnesium industry, officials refused to appear, contending
they were not doing business as a U.S. corporation. The Attorney
General claimed that the seizure (timed with expected receipt of
$250,000 due I. G. Farbenindustrie that same day for license fees from
U.S. firms) would compel the dye trust to appear before a U.S. court if it
wanted to protest, w
...investigations, an FBI man shushed him in alarm. Ovakimian growled at the Soviet consul general, who treated him with vast respect (and posted a $25,000 bond with $50 and $100 bills), identified himself first as a buyer for Amtorg Trading Corp., next as representative of the "chemical trust," last as an agent of "the Commissariat." Around the Amtorg office he was always a feared and mysterious figure who came and went as he pleased, was reported to have studied in U.S. technical schools, and was believed by subordinates to be the CPU's industrial chief...
Putting her trust in her honey-blonde hair, a little seashore hipper-dipper, and the eye-brimming distinction she imparts to the plainest photographic studies, 20-year-old Gloria Wood, star-minded daughter of Director Sam Wood (Kitty Foyle), petitioned in Los Angeles court for permission to discard her cinemagic name, call herself just K. T. Stevens...
...architect went ahead on a $2,000,000 structure though only $400,000 had been raised. Work stopped early in the depression when $600,000 had been spent, one section completed. Since then, finances have gone from bad to worse. Last May the mortgage-holder, Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis, foreclosed, offered to settle its $266,316 claim for $185,000, meanwhile started charging $500 a month rent. Because "even the rent had not been paid for six months, the bank at last took the keys...
...similarly make a market in big utility deals, and last week Jones made public his promise to compete for any big issues which bankers seemed to be negotiating for on their own terms. Subsequently he will accept piecemeal bids from bankers or market the bonds direct to insurance and trust companies. In that event, probably more gilt-edged flotations would go to smaller institutions outside of New York than heretofore. In the rush of stock offerings sure to result from holding company dissolutions Jones may also help by lending investment houses money...