Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interesting, also, was the question of the Royal Dutch quid pro quo. The Royal Dutch statement, said that it had contributed its "experience" and certain unspecified patents under its control. There had been no previous mention of Royal Dutch patents comparable to the hydrogenation treatment. Meanwhile, however, Royal Dutch emphatically denied any general alliance with Standard and I. G. F., insisted that the shared patent implied no lessening of competition, no understandings on the division of the world-petroleum trade...
...omit a first-half report and also to issue quarterly statements thereafter. Official reason for failure to report was that the recent recapitalization and unification plan by which Radio Corp. took over General Electric and Westinghouse radio manufacturing facilities and in return gave the two utility-equipment companies control of its stock, made impossible a fair comparison between the first quarter of 1930 and the first quarter...
...Volpi di Misurata, onetime (1925-28) Italian Minister of Finance, crossed the. English Channel and arrived in the British Isles. Their advent was signalized by the formation of British & International Utilities, Ltd., a corporation designed to acquire stocks in leading utilities of the British Isles and the British Empire. Control of this company was shared by the Volpi-formed Compagnie Italo Belge pour Enterprises d'Electricité et d'Utilité Publique, commonly known as Cibe, and by Dawnay, Day & Co., Ltd., London merchant bankers. Count Volpi is chairman; Lord Barnby of Lloyds and the Earl of Westmoreland...
...takes a queer case: two little girls, daughters of a millionaire mother, who are wasting away without apparent cause. She soon discovers that the children are anemic from undernourishment. The mother is almost a dipsomaniac. A paternal uncle, the nurse suspects, is a villain who is scheming to get control of the family fortune, has his sister-in-law under his thumb, has bribed the .doctor to let the children die. Nurse Hart, with the help of her bootlegger swain, circumvents the plot, rescues the family at the cost of her professional reputation. Night Nurse has evidently been written...
...Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg especially, dueling is preserved by the students in defiance of national law, in the belief that it teaches self-control and physical courage. The "sport duel" is fought "not on any point of personal honor but as a test of endurance of bloodletting." The leaders of the undergraduate "corporations" tell off the representatives who are to meet. At Heidelberg, each member of the most select of the 44 corporations must fight ten duels during his three-year residence...