Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herr Stinnes recently completed an oil trust, developed in the last year, based on concessions in Mexico and Argentina, wells in Mesopotamia and the Balkans, and on the Deutschen Redoil, which derives oil from brown coal by means of a German process...
This case is brought under the Sherman Anti-Trust law, with the claim that the International Harvester Company is a "combination in restraint of interstate trade and commerce," and that through its increasing monopolistic control, "the farmers of the United States would be deprived of free and open competition in the manufacture and sale of harvesting machines...
Some of the people who attended the Firpo-Willard fight: two Governors, Silzer (N. J.) and Smith (Vt.); three former Governors, Cox (Ohio), Davis (Ohio), Edwards (N. J.); A. H. Smith (President N. Y. Central Railroad), Charles H. Sabin (President Guaranty Trust Co., Manhattan), John Ringling (circus man), Mr. and Mrs. Flo Ziegfeld, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Barney Oldfield, Ralph De Palma, Jim Corbett, George M. Cohan, Benny Leonard, Lew Tendler, Senator Walter E. Edge (N. J.), Princess Bibesco, Mike de Pike...
Meanwhile Mr. Bok deposited $100,000 in securities with the Garvin Trust Company of Philadelphia. Also, the Policy Committee has invited the cooperation of several organizations, who will broadcast the conditions of the contest and, when finally a plan is selected, will have their members vote for or against the chosen plan, as a test of public sentiment...
...turn of the half-year, many concerns announced the payment of various bonuses to their employees. The Title Guarantee and Trust Co. of Manhattan, prospering from the building boom, expects to distribute bonuses ranging from 5% to 15% or more upon its annual salary and wage list...