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...price levels, the value of franchises, patents, goodwill and other intangibles. On that basis it earns only 5%. It ups its rates to consumers to boost its earnings and its percentage of profit. The State interferes. The corporation appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court which must decide the concern's property value against which income may be figured. The court agrees that the company is worth say $195,000,000, that 5% is not a fair return on that valuation, and therefore voids the State's restraint as a Constitutional violation. The Court then says the corporation...
...held that a franchise obtained for nothing was worth $5,000,000 to the company, that earnings of 6.26% were so low as to be confiscatory. He warned of "the great economic oppression" that would follow such decisions. Said he: "I do not know of a proposition of more concern to all the people than the relationship which these properties and natural resources shall bear to the masses of the people in the U. S." The Senator also found that Mr. Hughes's plea that General Electric Co. had a vested right in perpetuity in a broadcasting wave length...
About 40, Motty Eitingon must concern himself with such problems as the supervision of a Polish subsidiary engaged in the textile industry, proper handling of a $16,000,000 fur contract with the U. S. S. R., preservation of secret dye formulas. He has, however, plenty of time for relaxation, which he divides between a home on Park Avenue, and another in Leipzig. Riding, music, are his hobbies; generosity his outstanding characteristic. To satisfy his riding urge he keeps a string of horses in Manhattan. He is said to have been the patron of the violinist Benno Rabinov. His spending...
...year, the A. S. P. C. A. examined 109,438 horses, to make sure that they were not lame, sore, unfed, overloaded, raced, abused or neglected. Horses and dogs are the main concern of the Society, though it views with alarm any neglect or abuse of cats, mistreatment of fowl, cruelty to performing monkeys, the improper caging of trained bears, failure to water circus lions, the skinning alive of rabbits. Its active members are apt to be businessmen, lawyers, smart sporting people, animal fanciers. Its president is Frank K. Sturgis. Onetime president of the National Horse Show, onetime president...
...American Airways which intends to parallel NYRBA all the way to Buenos Aires?unless the Aviation Corp. of the Americas, which owns Pan American, buys control of NYRBA and so ends U. S. competition in the region. Another watcher of the fray is a little known U. S. concern, Paris American Airways, which competes with Pan American from Porto Rico to Trinidad, crossing en route Guadeloupe and Martinique. Another observer is the Colonial government of the Bahamas. Governor Charles William James Orr from his hill-cresting House at Nassau sees with no equanimity Pan American planes carrying mail, passengers...