Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banquet. Guest of honor was handsome, thickset City Magistrate Albert H. Vitale, who had just returned from a vacation. With this vigorous representative of the Law there sat down seven men whose faces appear in Manhattan's rogues' gallery. There were also several other suspicious persons, a group of local businessmen, a police detective, and a swart gentleman called Ciro Terranova alias Morello, commonly known as the "Artichoke King,"* and believed to possess a limousine equipped with bullet-proof glass...
Last week there came a realignment of Standard's controlling interest. Through a complicated rearrangement of Standard's financial structure, a group of capitalists headed by Harris, Forbes & Co. secured control of the Standard System, although leaving to the Byllesby Company the management and operation of Standard properties. The reorganization represented the amicable settlement of a dispute which had arisen between Byllesby & Co. and Standard's common stockholders. Byllesby's control of the System lay in its ownership of a special issue of 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock which carried a vote with every share. Through United States...
...shift in Standard's financial backing was generally interpreted as the initial step toward the merger of the Standard System with other utility systems connected with the Harris, Forbes group. Specifically mentioned was Associated Gas & Electric, which, rapidly expanding in the New York and New England territory has recently joined the ranks of the one-billion-dollar companies. Utility Manager H. C. Hopson, executive vice president of Associated Gas & Electric, was considered the likely head of any Standard-associated combine...
...increasing the tax on petroleum production was interpreted (by Wall St.) as the result of British maneuvering in the world-wide competition for petroleum properties. Specifically, the Gulf departure from the Colombian field was considered a development favorable to Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding and his Royal Dutch-Shell group...
...pilot can work the ailerons by hand as well, to effect lateral control of the plane, likewise the wing flaps. The plane has been designed to be put into immediate production with few changes in manufacturing methods now employed. Robert R. Osborn, project designer, speaking for the entire group of Curtiss engineers who jointly developed the Tanager in the Curtiss wind tunnel after two years' research, last week claimed that the floating aileron gives control at any angle of flight, adds non-stalling characteristics to the plane's performance, does not affect the life of the lower wing...