Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Eating. Jubilantly, the William Alexander Barber interests, which last year wrested control of Childs Co. (lunch rooms) from the Childs family, announced last week a 100% rise in first-six-months earnings for 1930 over 1929. Though gross has declined slightly, net has more than doubled: from 68¢ a share in 1929 to $1.35 a share in 1930. Weeding out of unprofitable restaurants, economies in management, are responsible...
...outbreak of cholera in the Island of Bantayan, 300 mi. southeast of Manila, is causing uneasiness throughout the entire Philippine Archipelago. Governor General Dwight Filley Davis returned last week from a tour of the infested district, assured his fellow citizens the plague was under control. Robert Hart, chief quarantine officer of Manila, declared that city was quite safe. But it was learned the disease had spread from Bantayan to the neighboring islands of Cebu and Masbate despite a strict government quarantine which has stopped practically all commerce within the affected region. Especially miserable and hungry were the inhabitants...
Three days later Publisher Haines decided not to merge with the Press-Guardian. He was told, "We'll spend any amount of money to get control of this field...
...broken limb. The hull crashed to earth, disintegrating as it fell. All occupants were killed. There was no explosion, no fire. Airport officials doubted lightning was the cause, believed the pilot, trying to right the plane as it dove from the cloud, pulled back too sharply on the control stick...
United Aircraft & Transport Corp., which last spring acquired the first transcontinental system of airlines after a bitter fight with the Curtiss-Keyes group (TiME, April 14, et seq.), last week without a struggle extended its control through the Northwest. Already operating the Boeing System from Chicago to San Francisco, and Pacific Air Transport from Los Angeles to Seattle, United closed a triangle by absorbing Varney Air Lines, Inc., from Salt Lake City to Portland, Seattle and Spokane. One share of United was exchanged for two of Varney...