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...Siemens Concern, of which Siemens Schuckert is a branch, is Germany's great electrical equipment company. Employing 110,000 men they manufacture telephones, electrochemical products, steam turbines, generative equipment...
...school, a matriarchal and religious influence, an embodiment of Hill tradition, while the young King carried on after his father's death. He had been to Yale and Oxford. He had firm ideas about efficiency of body and mind. He administered the school as a business concern, left teaching to the teachers, led prayers like a chairman-of-the-board. An able tennis player, he coached the tennis team, then mastered golf mechanically and coached that too. Those were his two closest contacts with the boys except when they appeared before him as culprits or petitioners or to receive...
...charter was granted to the New York Gas Light Co., which later became Consolidated, making the present company the third oldest illuminating gas concern in the U. S. Its expansion has been regular rather than phenomenal, but in recent years the pace has been accelerated. A power in Con. Gas finance is Nicholas F. Brady and a power in its operation is George Bruce Cortelyou, president of Con. Gas since 1909. Once Mr. Cortelyou was a stenographer in the Federal Court of New York, then a Roosevelt cabinet member and national G. 0. P. chairman. A subway rider, he travels...
...salesmen would visit him, sell him many more shares of stock. Even less legitimate than most offers, however, is that of the Wrigley Pharmaceutical Co., selling stock and a ''spearmint toothpaste." For although the company's president signs himself W. W. Wrigley, neither he nor the concern are connected with potent William Wrigley Jr. Co. of Chicago...
Surprised and delighted, said he: "I didn't even know he was being considered for the place until we got word from friends who read the morning papers. . . . Our greatest concern when Karl was a boy was that he would never be interested in anything but play. He had a football suit when he was in the grades and it seemed as though he wore it most of the time...