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Garvan's Random Thoughts. Francis Patrick Garvan, lawyer, onetime (1919) Alien Property Custodian, brother-in-law of Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper), received in absentia the society's Priestley Medal, its highest award, for "distinguished service to chemistry," for being "the greatest lay patron of chemistry in this country." He organized and is president of Chemical Foundation, Inc., to which he sold the War-expropriated German chemical patents. Stockholders of the foundation are U. S. chemical concerns which pay it royalties on its patents and which later get back the greater portion of their payments as dividends...
...including James E. Woodward, president of Metals Bank of Butte and Sam Stephenson, president of First National of Great Falls) the board will number leading industrialists. Among those already chosen are John D. Ryan, Cornelius F. Kelly, and L. O. Evans, respectively the chairman, president and general manager of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., gigantic producer and fabricator not only of copper, but zinc, lead, silver, gold, antimony, arsenic...
...Anaconda Copper...
...added to its mining and smelting business, the refining of its own products as well as a comprehensive sales organization, and is reaching out to acquire an interest in the copper fabricating industries. In short, it is setting out to integrate a great vertical combination similar to that of Anaconda...
...Last week, also, an increase of capital stock by $500,000,000 was planned by directors of mighty A. T. & T. Stockholders surmised that this move, like those of U. S. Steel and Anaconda, might lead to bond redemption. A. T. & T. will thus break one more world's record in size. It will be the first corporation with $2,000,000,000 capital...