Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time the New Irishmen's night life is governed solely by the moon. On bright nights they carouse mightily, disport themselves happily. Particularly happy are they when someone dies or is born when the moon is full. Such events are celebrated with feasts which frequently get out of control and last for a month...
...control the high pressure explosion waves which pound against cylinder walls and produce the metallic sound, oilmen added to gasoline substances which raise the detonating point. Examples: aniline, tetraethyl lead...
...three zealous Sunday School teachers in his youth, the other two being a young woman and her brother. This three-cornered friendship was lifelong. The young woman married Lumber Tycoon E. B. Eddy. Presently he died. Mrs. Eddy and her brother, when they died, left 1.507 shares (control) of E. B. Eddy Co. to their pious friend "Dick" Bennett...
...industrial methods in the persons of the four potent Brothers Guggenheim. Originally focused on Chile by copper, their gaze wandered in 1924 to nitrates. Their key company, Anglo- Chilean Consolidated Nitrate Corp., has bulked larger and larger in the industry. Last fall it clinched its leadership by buying control of Lautaro Nitrate Co. Ltd., biggest producer of Chilean nitrate. Even before that, however, the Guggenheims had started their Oficina Maria Elena Plant working in 1926 with the epochal Guggenheim Process...
...owned the other 50%. Sinclair Consolidated, with only $34,189,000 invested in the two companies, made the staggering profit of $38,000,000 on the deal-which eclipses even the $23,000,000 which hard-bitten Leonor Fresnel Loree made for his Delaware & Hudson when he sold his control of Wabash and Lehigh Valley to Pennsylvania. The sale is first step in pipe reorganization in Texas, Wyoming and mid-continent oil fields. Next step: acquisition by Sinclair of Prairie Oil & Gas Co. and Prairie Pipe Line...