Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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General Motors and Standard Oil of New Jersey jointly control Ethyl Gasoline Corp. Ethyl Gas owns patents on a fluid-chief components are tetraethyl lead and ethylene dibromide-which reduces knocking in automobiles...
...Appellant [Ethyl] has made use of its dominant position ... to exercise control over prices and marketing policies of jobbers ... to make its attitude toward price-cutting a pervasive influence...
...authorized sales of the fuel by refiners to jobbers, the patent monopoly over it is exhausted, and after the sale neither appellant nor the refiners may longer rely on the patents to exercise any control over the price at which fuel may be re-sold...
...Besides the body there is the mind. There are some to whom the idea of harboring a louse is so repellent as to unhinge the mind. . . . [Louse] control is perhaps the worst of all; for it depends upon inspections which ... are so undignified that no man would willingly submit to them, nor would any in his normal mind conduct them excepting as a duty...
...beginnings, small for the big time. But Odlum scented the end of the boom, sniffed opportunities ahead for anyone able to lay cash on the line for 1929's overvalued securities when the coming depression had undervalued them. In 1930-33, Odlum, with cash in hand, picked up control of enormous pools of capital by paying their hard-hit sponsors a few cents on their lately pyramided dollars. Out of Depression Atlas emerged as No. 1 U. S. investment trust (peak assets: $121,336,779 in 1933) and Odlum emerged as the U. S.'s newest tycoon...