Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world markets. First came a triple merger involving three British steel makers (Vickers, Vickers-Armstrong, and Cammell, Laird & Co.) who united all their interests, except their armament works, in a company to be called the English Steel Corp., Ltd. Capital: about $100,000,000. Then came another merger-the union of Dorman Long, Ltd. with Bolckow Vaughan & Co., Ltd. Capital also about $100,000,000. An export agreement has been concluded and an effort will be made to secure a protective tariff on steel...
...Nationalist Government is not a Republic but an Oligarchy or Dictature. In many organic details it resembles the Government of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics - "Russia"-and the Fascist State created by Benito Mussolini...
...telephotograph is a Bell Telephone electrical reproduction of any picture. A photogram is such a reproduction of a telegram or document which Bell Telephone sends by its telephotograph for Western Union or Postal Telegraph. Photogram offices are everywhere. Telephotograph despatching-receiving stations are at only Boston, Manhattan, Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angeles...
...exception, of course, was the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. From Moscow had issued orders for war with the Swedish Match Trust in the world's markets. And following the orders came inspired reports that the U.S.S.R. had enlisted both the Japanese trust and the Chinese syndicates as allies. And following the propaganda came Russian matches, in boxes, in crates, in carloads, flooding the markets of Europe...
Adolphus Busch, whose beer is not as potent as it used to be, and the late Festus John Wade, banker, have had two public schools in St. Louis, Mo., named for them. Last week, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union protested, because Brewer Busch's onetime beverage "is now outlawed by the Constitution of our country" and because Banker Wade was a Roman Catholic...