Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Warned the Commission: "The Pennroad Co., by acquiring stock control of a railroad, can bring it under common control with the Pennsylvania without itself controlling or being controlled by the latter carrier as such. . . . Common control can be effected by a chain, one vital link in which is made up of the control exercised, directly or indirectly, over two or more corporations by individuals. . . . [This] may result in the suppression of competition...
Radio Corp.'s forte. Last week it went further into music. National Broadcasting Co. announced that with music publishers Leo Feist, Inc. and Carl Fischer it had formed a new publishing house: Radio Music Corp., capitalized at $6,600,000. NBC owns one-third of the capital stock. RKO Productions, Inc. therefore, like every other important cinema company, will have its own music publishers. And Radio Corp. will now be financially interested in practically every phase of public entertainment...
During the summer, Cineman Fox, proud of the quick expansion that had brought his organization Loew's Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the Gaumont Theatres in England, decided to consolidate all his holdings into one In September the authorized Class A stock of Fox Film was increased from 900,000 to 4,900,000 shares, but the consolidation never took place. Last summer Mr. Fox, injured in an automobile accident (TIME, July 29), was away from his office for almost two months. When he recovered he scarcely had time to start his plan with an attempt to distribute...
...mean diminished profits, for like tobacco companies they are "depression proof." But at this particular time the stockmarket decline brought severe trouble to Cineman Fox. During the recent period of expansion he had needed great sums of cash. These he had obtained by short-term loans upon the stock of acquired companies. With $91,000,000 of these notes falling due, with his collateral down, with conditions bad for refinancing, Cineman Fox for the first time needed assistance. Last week he summoned aid by appointing a trustee-triumvirate consisting of himself, a banker, a manufacturing engineer...
...made. The mines owned by National Lead are a small factor in its position as the world's largest consumer of tin and lead. For this reason National Lead, like any wise concern, keeps an eye on its raw supplies. It owns some Patiño stock, keeps its own president and vice president on the Patiño board of directors, was long a partner with Patiño in owning Williams, Harvey & Co. of Liverpool, world's largest tin smelters...