Word: unites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kingsbury, president of Standard Oil of California, had kept a rendezvous at Lake Tahoe, Calif., each with his corps of clerks and lawyers and were "resuming discussions tentatively initiated more than two years ago." Should they come to terms, a $2,381,000,000 combination might result, largest oil unit in the world...
...thought scoffed instalment buying in 1928, blamed it for the catastrophe of 1929, foretold its speedy annihilation. But no annihilation has come about; instalment selling has withstood Depression well. Although purchases of all goods, especially those which may be bought "on time," have dropped, and although the price per unit is less, the National Association of Credit Companies reports that the industry has shown surprising stability except for radio sets and mechanical refrigerators, both of which, however, have made steady gains. Four hundred and two automobile finance companies did a $547,000,000 business in the first half of this...
...proposal to extend Y. M. C. A. membership to women was brought before the International Convention. Philadelphia's General Secretary Walter M. Wood backed the idea, pointed out that it had worked in Philadelphia for 18 years. He said there was "increasingly popular acceptance of the unit association service for the whole family. . . ." Assistant General Secretary Ralph Wendling Cooke of Chicago opposed the plan on the ground that the Association would tend to lose its identity. The proposal was referred to U. S. and Canadian National Councils...
...quiet, modest man of 39 who is considered one of the ablest men in the country yet is as obscure as his company. He is Floyd Bostwick Odium (pronounced: Oddlum) whose other chief interests are his vice-presidency of Electric Bond & Share and his vice-chairmanship of its big unit. American & Foreign Power Co. Seldom in the public prints, he was written up two years ago for conducting the "most expensive telephone call," London-New York, 95 min., $1,425. Slim, nonchalant, sandy-haired & freckled, Floyd Bostwick Odium studied law at University of Colorado, in New York started work with...
Contract. Between 75 and 90 of the gasoline requirements of Richfield Oil Corp. of New York (solvent) will be filled by Arkansas Natural Gas Corp., Cities Service unit, according to a contract signed last week. Cities Service was expected to absorb Richfield Oil Co. of California after it went into receivership (TIME, Feb. 9), is still thought to hold much Richfield stock...