Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...consequence of a merger in December 1939, Agfa Ansco Corporation became a division of General Aniline & Film Corporation. The latter has issued and outstanding 2,529,700⅔ shares of stock, each share being entitled to one vote. Approximately 20,000 shares of the corporation are owned by German interests. This represents less than 1% of the voting power of the stock...
...Swiss corporation owns approximately two-thirds of the stock of General Aniline & Film Corporation. The I. G. Farbenindustrie owns stock in this Swiss corporation in an amount which represents approximately 10½% of the voting power of its outstanding shares...
Once he was nominated, business as a whole began lining up behind him with the same enthusiasm. The New York Stock Exchange, with utility stocks opening up three points, traded 660,000 shares in its first hour (previous day's total: 441,000). The New York Journal of Commerce exulted, "To the business community, the nomination of Mr. Willkie spells a new era," and predicted a more confident policy among purchasing agents. More significant was the way individual businessmen took fire. Monsanto Chemical Co.'s Edgar Monsanto Queeny asked his board of directors for a leave of absence...
...personal debts of $6,665,000, was ousted from control of his company by Dillon, Read & Co. He quickly formed a new firm, Seiberling Rubber Co., and a holding company, Prudential Securities, Inc., into which he put all of his personal assets - including 128,000 shares of Goodyear common stock...
...industry. He paid off Davis' loan and, when Prudential's notes again came due, got Cyrus Eaton to put $5,000,000 into a new holding company, Ohio Goodyear Securities Co., which acquired Prudential's assets, paid off the bankers. Most of the Goodyear stock was swapped to Eaton for U. S. Rubber stock, other assets were sold, Eaton was paid off - all of Ohio Goodyear's stock was transferred to Davis...