Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Traffic in the Square was held up for fifteen minutes while firemen, with the help of the 11 engines and hose lines, brought the fire under control before a crowd of several hundred people...
Thus, after 26 years, the Times-Dispatch goes back to the Bryans who founded it. Thus, too, Virginia loses its last competitive newspaper city of any size. Like Slover in Norfolk, Carter Glass in Lynchburg, Bryan will control the news in Richmond...
...bacon-and-egg market, save her foreign exchange for military materials. Meanwhile, Scandinavian dollar bonds hit the skids, with declines up to almost 50%. Washington issued an order, generally welcomed by importers, that reduced confusion: Norwegian and Danish credit transfers were put under Federal control...
...reduce its capital from $490,953,630 to $332,692,250, its fixed charges from $14,368,842 to $5,628,245. Not quite wiped out were its stockholders. Biggest stockholder, the rich Chesapeake & Ohio, would have to put up $40,000,000 in order to retain its 55% control...
Last week utility investors got a whiff of further equity offerings to come. Answering SEC's demand for an integration plan, far-flung Standard Gas & Electric announced "partial compliance." It proposed to sell control of its properties in California and the Northwest to holders of (and in exchange for) its own notes and debentures, thus freeing three subsidiaries, retiring part of its debt, reducing its own size. Last month SECommissioner Mathews accepted a job with the Standard Gas system because Standard's management had convinced him that it was trying to comply with the spirit of the Holding...