Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Harvard debating season opened auspiciously when D. D. Lloyd '31 and A. B. Rood '31 were victors in a debate on the subject, "Resolved, That the State should have control of electric power" at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, on Saturday...
...Cossack Tierekov, said to have the lowest voice on record, recently had his throat photographed in Berlin.) There are falsettos which soar high into the soprano realm. (Audiences often suspect Cossack Ovtchinikov of being a woman.) The Cossacks hum their own accompaniments and strum them. Conductor Jaroff's control of his men is intense, superb, exercised by a clutched hand and fierce jerks of his little head. Musical cranks at last week's debut performance complained that the substance of the songs was sacrificed to the manner of singing, that too many tricks made for monotony...
...Cosden, head of Cosden & Co. He had vast estates in Palm Beach and Long Island, entertained lavishly, followed horses as well as stocks. His wealth was estimated at $50,000,000. Surely his expenditures lent veracity to this figure. But after heavy losses in the stockmarket he lost control of Cosden & Co. which became Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., was reported financially down & out. Three years later his friends financed a projected comeback. He moved from Manhattan to Fort Worth, energetically entered the oil industry through the new Cosden Oil Co. in which he had been given a half interest...
Proud Utility. One of the few large independent utility companies is United Illuminating Co. which furnishes New Haven and Bridgeport with electricity. Long has it been understood that United Gas-Improvement Co. of Philadelphia and the Fitkin interests (Abraham Edward and Willis Fitkin) have sought to obtain control of United. Last week United's directors proposed that stock in the company be trusteed for 15 years to assure local control. Mechanics of the plan involve formation of a new company, Illuminating Shares Co., issuance of two shares in this company for each share of United deposited. United Illuminating stock...
This first publication by the School raises and attempts to furnish material to answer a large number of questions of location, management, fiscal policy, and legal control of an airport. The book consists of three reports: the airport in the city plan, airport administration, and the law of airports. It is based on a widespread and detailed study of airport practice, and offers much data derived from a field study which included visits to 85 of the principal airports of the United States...