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...Inland Waterways Corp. would be subject to indictment for issuing deceptive reports if it were a private concern. It practically amounts to using the mails to obtain money under false pretenses. The barge line fails to figure in its cost such items as attorney's fees, printing, franking, depreciation and the expense of operating the dams and locks it uses. If people knew the facts, they'd demand prosecution. I don't know how much bookkeeping they teach at West Point but they teach obeying orders. If General Ashburn is told to make the lines...
Trouble with rascally circulation men, most of whom are trained in the rough-&-tumble school of delivery trucks and loading platforms, is an occasional experience of many a U. S. newspaper publisher. It may be the circulation manager himself who is corrupt. If so. his sole concern is to ascertain how much circulation the publisher wants, to enhance his reputation as a hustler by getting it, foully if necessary. A threadbare device is for the circulation manager to raise the salary of a district man. ostensibly for showing bigger sales. The district man is allowed to pocket part...
Baron Goh's Tokyo Electric is not only the biggest concern in the field but also the biggest corporation in Japan. The great banking house of Mitsui has tremendous holdings in it. Serving the rich industrial area around Tokyo and Yokohama, it produces nearly as much power as New York Edison Co., more than Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Tokyo Electric probably has more customers than any strictly power & light company in the world...
...doing Colonel Deeds wrote the final chapter to the story of N. C. R. as a family concern-one of the purple romances of U. S. business history. Rooted deep in the autocratic individualism of the late Founder John Henry Patterson, N. C. R. in the early years of the century shouldered its strenuous way forward to the point where Founder Patterson could boast that he built 90% of the world's cash registers. The "inventor" of modern high-pressure salesmanship. Founder Patterson bullied and pampered his employes, told them what to eat, often shared as much...
...which has millions of dollars to invest and you also control hotels with mortgages for sale there is an obvious temptation. Chicago's Stevens family, which used to own the Stevens ("World's Greatest") Hotel and the La Salle Hotel, also controlled Illinois Life Insurance Co., a concern with $150,000,000 in policies outstanding, half of them in its home state. Legally, if unwisely, Illinois Life bought $11,000,000 worth of mortgages and securities in the two hotels, both of which have passed into receivership...