Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which subsequently appeared under glass in a temporary tomb in the Red Square. When plans for the permanent tomb had finally been agreed on, the corpse vanished for 18 months into the recesses of the Kremlin. At last in 1930 the new mausoleum was completed. It was a terraced pyramid of sleek red & black granite. From a single 50-ton block over the bronze doors flared in red porphyry the word LENIN...
...Great Seal of the U. S. (adopted in 1782), the eagle with E Pluribus Unum in its beak, a branch of olive in one talon, a clawful of arrows in the other. And alongside will appear the little-known reverse of the Great Seal (see cut): an unfinished pyramid dated 1776; above it, the allegorical eye of God and the words Annuit Coeptis (He favored our undertakings); below it, Novus Ordo Seclorum (A new order of the ages; i. e., a New Deal in the language...
...operated his companies ably, so Mr. Hopson financed them astutely. Stocks of his numerous holding companies were sold to the public but control of the two companies at the top of the pyramid remained with him and John Isaac Mange, president and later chairman of the system. Mr. Hopson, shrewd mathematician, invented many complicated kinds of securities for sale to the public. According to the Federal Trade Commission, Associated Gas & Electric Co. has or has had (the system changes so often that A. G. E. can generally catch in error anybody who ventures to describe it) three classes of common...
...Hanau, 49, French arch-swindler; of pneumonia following a suicide attempt (poison); in a Paris prison hospital after serving most of a three-year term for fraud. Through her newspaper, Gazette du Franc, she gave financial "tips" to small investors who lost more than $4,000,000 when her pyramid of holding companies collapsed in December 1928 in the greatest scandal France had known since...
...holding and operating companies which Promoter Harley Lyman Clarke put under the control of Utilities Power & Light Corp. of Chicago. Serving 550 communities in the U. S., 488 in England and Wales. 31 in Canada, Utilities Power & Light is, however, not the apex of Promoter Clarke's classic pyramid. Its control rests in a small issue of voting stock held by a super holding company called Public Utilities Securities Corp. which in turn is controlled by a super-super holding company. Grand Potentate of them all, called Webster Securities Corp...