Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, the National Safety Council-published its annual collection of Odd Accidents of the Year. Oddest...
Died. Charles Rudolph Walgreen, 66, tightlipped, tight-minded founder of the U. S.'s second largest ($27,846,000) drugstore chain (508 stores in 37 States); in Chicago. In 1935, he removed his niece from the University of Chicago because he disapproved of the "Communistic theories" taught there, later gave the university $550,000 to establish the Walgreen Foundation for Study of American Institutions...
...larger supplies of raw materials, customarily pay off their loans when they let inventory run off. In order to keep purely financial transactions from unduly influencing the Index-which aims to reflect general business, not merely financial conditions-the turnover component for financial centres like New York and Chicago is kept separate from the turnover component for trade centres, and the two are later combined giving the turnover in trade centres, and much more weight than that for financial centres. In the chart they are shown separately.) In early 1939 the trend of turnover in trade centres followed a course...
...Associated a few more palmy years, it might have succeeded in merging with another $1,000,000,000 system, Standard Gas and Electric Co. Standard runs 26 operating utilities, among them Pittsburgh's large Duquesne Light Co. and Wisconsin Public Service Co. For years Standard was controlled by Chicago's private utility bankers, H. M. Byllesby and Co. Nowadays, Byllesby plays second fiddle in Standard to Manhattan's up-&-coming, bargain-hunting Syndicateer Victor Emmanuel...
...McNuttish-looking Leo Thomas Crowley, since 1934 chairman of FDIC. He hired Mr. Crowley through Washington's No. i Big Money employment office, Jesse Jones's RFC, the same office which placed Mr. Crowley's FDIC predecessor, Jones Protege Walter Cummings (TIME, Nov. 27), who heads Chicago's huge Continental Illinois Bank...