Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once inclined to go overboard on horse bets, he tries to hew to a pocket-money allowance of $125 doled out weekly by a Wall Street law firm, which receives his income, pays his bills, nourishes his annuities and tends to the dozen companies lumped under the name Milton Berle Enterprises, Inc. Among his interests: a machine tool company, a furniture factory, real estate, music publishing, a toy business, a producing company...
...Wall Street Journal also admonished Big Steel: "There seems no reason why the sessions should not take place in a hall of sufficient size." Forbes Magazine Publisher B. C. Forbes also let fly: "The time is past when companies can get away with holding their meetings in damned inaccessible places like Squeedunkus or Hohokus . . ." In midweek, the stockholders' revolt gained a small victory. Continental Can Co., Inc., which has been holding its annual meetings in Millbrook, N.Y., a more than two-hour train & bus trip from Manhattan, announced that it would hold future meetings in its Manhattan headquarters...
Bales incarcerates his subjects in a specially rigged conference room and tells them to conduct a meeting. But unknown to them, Bales and his minions are spying on them through a one-way mirror covering one wall...
With some of the cash it raised on these sales Alleghany has already bought into Portsmouth Steel and Interlake Steamship Co., a Great Lakes ore carrier, and increased its holdings of Pittston Co., one of the world's largest coal producers. Wall Streeters also gossiped that Young was casting a buying eye on Western Union and American Express Co., which he thought he could get cheap. Both would fit nicely into his transportation kingdom. For landing big fish like these, Bob Young was readying...
...Wall Street Investment Banker Paul V. Shields moved into full control of huge Curtiss-Wright Corp. Shields, who had helped the corporation with its financing, was invited in by the directors last December to reorganize the management. President William C. Jordan disagreed with Shields's plan to go outside the aeronautical field to get new business; the company had not done too well making non-aeronautical products. Last week both Jordan and Chairman Guy W. Vaughan, who had stepped out of the presidency when Jordan stepped in, left the company. Shields began shopping for a new president...