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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
On Oct. 23, 1929, the New York Curb listed 1,227,392 preferred shares and 7,477,392 common shares of Blue Ridge Corp., investment trust sponsored by Harrison Williams and by Goldman, Sachs & Co. As the same date is more memorable as opening day for greatest market crash in...
Of Senor Patiño's customers the most important is the National Lead Co. whose principal business is to make things out of lead-such things as painters' materials (Dutch Boy Paint), babbitt metals, piano key leads, storage battery oxides. Important alloy of lead is tin, without...
Died. Francis P. Gibson, proofreader, of Evanston, Ill., founder-president of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf (insurance organization); in Chicago; after an operation for gallstones. To a deaf audience of some 1,500 people, a deaf minister preached a sermon with his hands while his daughter translated it...
When glum pre-Prohibition workers of Pacific Coast Steel Co. first read upon their checks "These pay checks are made non-negotiable so that employes cannot cash them in saloons" they knew it was the work of William (Pigiron) Piggott, president of the company, bitter and active campaigner against liquor...