Search Details

Word: vanadium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...years the Vanadium Corp. of America jogged along in its own quiet way, all but unknown to the public. Last week it was blasted into the limelight. Vanadium is one of the chief suppliers to the atomic bomb project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: New Luster for Vanadium | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...Vanadium Corp. was established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: New Luster for Vanadium | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Ever since, its engineers have poked into the earth's crust in search of deposits of vanadium, tungsten, chromium and other rare metals. In Peru it controls the world's largest vanadium deposits, and a leaching plant nearly three miles above sea level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: New Luster for Vanadium | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...company got a new president, stocky, pink-jowled Edwin Dagobert Bransome. No engineer, Bransome pulled the company out of a financial hole. It promptly earned a profit of $152,000, Vanadium's first in six years. By 1944 Bransome was able to report to his stock holders that Vanadium had cleared $459,00 on gross sales of $16 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: New Luster for Vanadium | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Last week Vanadium's president was mum. He would discuss neither his company nor its future. But investors would no longer ignore it: in three days after Hiroshima was bombed, Vanadium's stock was pushed up from $25½to $33 ⅜a share. Next day it went down to $28⅜ as speculators took their profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: New Luster for Vanadium | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Next