Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...measure, she said, affected only the business staffs of the two organizations and did not imply that the News would control the literary policies of Signature or publish the magazine's material...
...Board did in fact propose a financial merger of the News and Signature. It was thought that Signature could profit by the increased circulation and more efficient business methods which a merger with the News would offer them. It was not intended that the News should in any way control the literary policies of Signature, but only that the business staff of the News could untangle the Signature financial muddle. The original idea was that Signature could be published in a less expensive format and then circulated with the News. It was hoped that by cutting expenses to the minimum...
...each of Barnsdall's 2,223,307 shares of common stock was backed by roughly $120 worth of oil in the ground. Yet the stock was then selling around $30. Odium began buying large blocks of Barnsdall stock, by late 1948 had acquired enough (35%) to get control of the company. Odium moved in as chairman, brought along two of his chief Atlas deputies-L. Boyd Hatch and Oswald L. Johnson-as directors early last year. They ran the company so well that in 1949, when the rest of the industry slipped a little from its 1948 high, Barnsdall...
...drivers had to keep an average speed of 42 miles per hour over the tricky course, save gas by skillful driving (e.g.,-a gentle, steady accelerator pressure), use no trick gadgets. One driver, wearing neither shoes nor socks, had sandpapered the soles of his feet to keep a sensitive control of the gas pedal; others wore special footwear, built up on the right side to give delicate horizontal pressure on the gas pedal instead of a strong downward thrust...
...Berry said that medical schools were "very sick" financially. While he emphasized urgent need of federal aid, he added. "With an adequate core of its own money a school can successfully resist unwarranted political interference or government control...