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...went back to his tree of decent but the grownups with the hungry brains were not through with him. Having established for all time the laws of chance, they decided to master the science of life. Two matrons both bursting with parent-teacher projects and the promotion of culture, walked up to the tree of descent. The younger of the two studied it intently for all of fifteen seconds, and then announced authoritatively. "The circulatory system of the frog." There were a lot of tangled lines, so the elderly lady nodded. And the biologist nodded...
...Doubleday's surprise, his own circulation manager, William Herbert ("Doc") Eaton stepped up with a scheme to lease the two big losers, share profits with the parent concern if & when profits should appear. On money borrowed from West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., Mr. Eaton then took over the magazines, carried them from Doubleday, Doran's Garden City, N. Y. printing house to Manhattan. With him went Adman Henry Jones and Country Life's socialite editor, Reginald Townsend Townsend...
...derivatives as ammonia, benzol, toluol. For three years Koppers' Rust built a coke plant every 60 days, a benzol-toluol plant every six weeks. Since these plants needed structural steel, Mr. Rust drew in the Pittsburgh steel team of Charles Donnell Marshall and Howard Hale McClintic. Today the parent Koppers Co. controls at least $400,000,000 worth of properties, has only 16 stockholders. The Mellons own a clear 50% of Koppers' stock, Mr. Marshall 16%, Mr. McClintic 9%, the Rust family about...
...corporation. It is the biggest private enterprise in the world, with more than $5,000,000,000 in assets, 270,000 employes, 1,000,000 security holders. State regulatory bodies have investigated its operating subsidiaries for 20 years. The Interstate Commerce Commission exercised a nominal control over the parent company's long-line operations before the Communications Commission was formed. But between these two points of public supervision lies a vast void which includes the mysteries of inter-company relations. Congress wanted to know "the effect of monopolistic control upon the reasonableness of telephone rates and charges...
...International's balance sheet this expansion had some notable effects. At one time the company and its subsidiaries had outstanding no less than 35 different bond issues and 25 stock issues, the parent itself boasting two preferreds and three commons designated A, B and C. All the power properties were grouped in a sub-holding company called International Hydro-Electric. On a consolidated basis they represented two-thirds of International's total gross assets...