Star of the Fred Karno | Karno comedy company, c. 1912

They left American branch of the Gaumont company in 1912 to set up their own independent company.

Production increased in 1912, when the company engaged Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller as directors.

Sennett left in 1912 to set up the Keystone company, where he could give his enthusiasm for the slapstick comedy style derived from the earlier Pathé comedies like le Cheval emballé ( The Runaway Horse ) full rein.

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company had been formed in 1912 as an umbrella company for many of the independent producing companies, and continued to grow during the war.

Eric was brought up in the company of his mother and sisters, and apart from a brief visit in the summer of 1907, they did not see the husband and father Richard Blair until 1912.

* Lincoln Motor Car Works, a company that produced cars sold exclusively by mail order by the Sears Roebuck Company from 1908 until 1912

Until he died in 1912, Henry controlled his company town, installing relatives in positions of civic authority.

Paramount Pictures Corporation is a film and television production / distribution company founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom.

In 1911 the company name was changed to Vickers Ltd and expanded its operations into aircraft manufacture by the formation of Vickers Ltd ( Aviation Department ) and a Vickers School of Flying was opened at Brooklands, Surrey on 20 January 1912.

Joseph Ettor | Joseph J. Ettor, who had been arrested in 1912, giving a speech to barbers on strike The IWW's efforts were met with violent reactions from all levels of government, from company management and their agents, and from groups of citizens functioning as vigilantes.

This company ran until 1912.

The company built the world's first totally enclosed monoplane in 1912, but it was the well-proportioned, wooden biplane known as the Avro 504 that kept the firm busy throughout the First World War and beyond.

The company operated under several different names, starting out in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, moving to the Netherlands in 1919.

Taking advantage of better opportunities in Germany, he moved to Berlin where, in 1912, he founded his first company, Fokker Aeroplanbau, later moving to the Görries suburb just southwest of Schwerin, where the current company was founded, as Fokker Aviatik GmbH, on 12 February 1912.

Production was badly hit in 1912 with a 23-week strike and Hugo Fischer von Roslerstam left the company.

The Warners sold their company in 1912 to the Stewart & Clark Company of Chicago.

In 1912, the company was found guilty of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.

1910 the company bought a large real estate in Lidingö and built a production plant that was completed around 1912, when they moved out from the facilities in Stockholm.

Ames hired industrialist Vincent Bendix in 1912, and the company became the Ames Motor Car Company.

In 1912, Adolph Zukor established Famous Players Film Company -- advertising " Famous Players in Famous Plays " -- as the American distribution company for the French film production Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth starring Sarah Bernhardt.

In 1912, the Herald acquired the Traveler, continuing to publish both under their own names.

In 1912, Henry Ernest Cooper ( 1857 – 1929 ) acquired William Ringer's property rights to Palmyra and, after a challenge in court, he became the sole owner of the atoll.

Much of the land acquired had been platted into lots in 1912 by the Munger Land Company and sold to investors.

In 1910, a Fruit Land Company of Minneapolis acquired of the Grant and in 1912 the area was subdivided.

In 1938, the United States government offered financial aid to the city of Shrewsbury, and land was acquired for the construction of a new city hall replacing the 1912 original.

Wishing to establish a permanent home, premises were acquired in 1912 in a former chapel in Hill Street, Park Road, London.

The Midland acquired a number of other lines, including the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway in 1903 and the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway in 1912.

Under Hertzka, UE signed contracts with a number of important contemporary composers, including Béla Bartók and Frederick Delius in 1908 ; Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg in 1909 ( Mahler's Symphony No. 8 was the first work UE acquired an original copyright to ); Anton Webern and Alexander von Zemlinsky in 1910 ; Karol Szymanowski in 1912, and Leoš Janáček in 1917.

The island was acquired in 1912 by Baird & Co. who opened the iron mine.

Napier's Shipyard in Govan was later acquired by William Beardmore and Company in 1900 before being sold on to Harland & Wolff in 1912.

In 2006, CCB acquired Bank of America ( Asia ), which started in 1912 in Hong Kong as Bank of Canton, and had a subsidiary in Macao.

When Thessaloniki was annexed from the Ottoman Empire to the Hellenic State in 1912 during the First Balkan War, the tower was whitewashed as a symbolic gesture of cleansing, and acquired its present name.

In 1912 and 1955, Miltenberg acquired lands over on the Main ’ s right bank to expand the town.

With no conventional protected cruisers or light cruisers acquired between 1900 and 1920, the Regia Marina instead operated a number of scout cruisers ( esploratori ) from 1912 onwards.

The Australian Government first rented the Duntroon homestead for two years ( November 1910 – July 1912 ) and finally acquired the freehold to the estate and 370 acres ( 1. 5 km² ) of land after the creation of the federal capital.

In 1912, Miami businessmen the Lummus Brothers acquired of Collins ' land in an effort to build an oceanfront city of modest single family residences.

The territory of Kardzhali province was acquired by Bulgaria during the First Balkan War in 1912.

In order to earn credibility as a league, the PCHA lured players from the NHA, and in 1912, the Millionaires acquired the highly-touted Cyclone Taylor, who would play for and star in Vancouver for the following ten seasons — the remainder of his career.

The state initially acquired 898 acres and opened Starved Rock State Park as a public facility in 1912.

When the original parish church was replaced in 1912 with the huge present-day Church, the Brothers acquired the old building and converted it as a gymnasium.

The most famous of Voynich's possessions was a mysterious medieval manuscript which he had acquired in 1912 at the Villa Mondragone in Italy.

Between the 1911 and 1912 seasons, the Tigers acquired the rest of the block, demolished both the wildcat bleachers and Bennett Park, and built Navin Field on the same site, though the new stadium was shifted by 90 degrees, with home plate where the left field corner had formerly been.

The 1912 ' pavilion ' was largely funded by Jesse Haworth, a local textile merchant, to house the archaeological and Egyptological collections acquired through excavations he had supported.

In February 1912, IUSM founders acquired property in the area on West Michigan Street ; the Robert E. Long Hospital would eventually become the site of the IU Medical Center.