Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Federal Control of Elections", Professor Holcombe, Harvard...
...Baltimore & Ohio appeared well on the way to realize its consolidation ambitions. It announced that during 1929 it had acquired more than 250,000 shares of Reading stock, clinching once for all its control of the road over which it gains access to New York. An even more decisive step forward was the approval by the I. C.C. of the B. & O.'s petition to acquire the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, for which it has long been angling. This prosperous coal road is a very desirable strategic link between Buffalo and Pittsburgh, the two Great Eastern Gateways. Over...
...become devoted to the boss directly over him. Yet last week perhaps a few of the natives working on some 46,000 acres of Goodyear Rubber Plantation Co.'s Sumatran rubber land heard of a change in bosses, of indirect, remote bosses, for it became known that control of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has definitely passed to the Cyrus Stephen Eaton-Otis & Co. interests...
...Eaton's journey from the herring-savored village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, to remote control of thousands of natives in Sumatra has been indeed a strange passage. Yet upon him it has left none of the travel marks that are found on most tycoons who have made similar trips from nowhere to the inner circle. He has none of the restlessness of a Ulysses, such as drove the late great Thomas Fortune Ryan from enterprise to enterprise. Nor has he the swagger of a Magellan, such as is found in Motormaker Chrysler...
...something must have kept him busy, for when during the panic of 1907 a member of the congregation made a proposition, he was able to secure some stray public utilities in Iowa. No slow-growing oaks sprang from these little acorns. Within eight years he was estimated to control $2,000,000,000 of invested money in Mid-West gas, power, light and traction companies. Now he is one of the foremost U. S. utility men, has been especially active in developing the United Power & Light...