Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bread Trust" Done. In Baltimore last week the $2,000,000,000 Ward Food Products Corp., although willing to fight the Government dissolution suit under the anti-trust laws (TIME, Feb. 22), consented to surrender its charter and sever all relations that might savor of monopoly. Provided this be done, the prosecution was withdrawn...
...award of the first prize given by the Chicago Trust Company for original research in business and finance was made to William Alexander Grimes '25 of Caonsville, Md. it has been announced by Dean R. E. Heilman of the School of Commerce of Northwestern University...
...large party from Leicester to a temperance society convention at Loughborough not far away. Coaching would be difficult and confusing. Travel on the new Midland Railway was considered audacious. Yet daring, enterprising Thomas Cook chartered a train, the first "public" excursion train in history, persuaded 570 temperance members to trust to his guidance, and appeared triumphantly at Loughborough. The fare was one shilling (24 cents) the round trip...
...American Tobacco Co. (Percival S. Hill, President) is by far the most potent of U. S. tobacco manufacturers. It was incorporated in 1904; dissolved as a trust...
...some years, in corollary to the trust-busting proclivities of President Roosevelt, the pseudo-monopolistic business of Swift & Co., of the Armour Co., and of the other large packers, lay under cloud in the public mind. True, they had corralled livestock, slaughtering and marketing control into few hands, had almost ruled the meat business of this country. Then came the War, during which the quintessence of centralized control over every commodity was the sine qua non of victory, and the U. S. Army Quartermaster Corps found its rationing problems simplified. General Knisgern, Zone Supply Officer, stationed at Chicago, was especially...