Word: apr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critics saw in the action of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey a spreading of the same movement which took place in the steel industry in the summer of 1923 (TIME, Apr. 21, June 4, July 16, Aug. 13, 1923, STEEL), and prophesied that it would spread to all the oil companies...
Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission announced that it would adjourn "for the summer months" on July 29. Inasmuch as the proposed railway mergers of the Van Sweringen brothers (TIME, Aug. 18, Apr. 6, 27, June 8, BUSINESS) are before the Commission awaiting approval or rejection, the adjournment will probably prevent action until fall. Since the Van Sweringen merger is a "test case," other mergers will probably be postponed accordingly...
...Apr. 21, 1914, a U. S. fleet landed sailors and marines at Vera Cruz. The customs house was seized and the city was occupied, after some fighting, for the purpose of exacting an apology from Mexico for the arrest of U. S. gobs...
...budget was originally planned by Senator Etienne Clementel, Premier Herriot's Finance Minister (TIME, Oct. 13), but the Herriot Government fell (TIME, Apr. 20) before it was voted. When Joseph Caillaux stepped into Senator Clementel's shoes, he had to reconstruct the budget. The budget...
...April, the Ford Motor Co. put into operation a freight airline between Detroit and Chicago (TIME, Apr. 20). For three months this line has worked successfully, carrying valuable freight at just under 10c a Ib. This week, the Ford interests started another line-one between Detroit and Cleveland. In the first plane was packed a knocked-down Ford automobile chassis, which, having arrived in Cleveland, was assembled on the field, driven...