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In a neo-Tudor office building in Buenos Aires, a clattering telex last week typed out more than 1,000 messages a day from the four corners of the world. There was news of jute prices in Calcutta, of harvest prospects in Illinois, and of grain shipments from Australia. All...
Scions of the Times. Little-known out side its homeland, Bunge & Born is the mightiest trading company south of the Equator and one of the biggest in the world. In Argentina, the company and its subsidiaries handle one-quarter of all wheat exports, manufacture 85% of the nation's...
Indirectly, Bunge & Born got its start in the lyth century, when a merchant family named Bunge (pronounced bungee) began trading in wheat along the Baltic coast. In 1876, when the first immense shipments of grain began to flow to Europe from the Pampas, young Ernest Bunge and his brother-in-law, George Born, emigrated from Antwerp to Buenos Aires and started a branch that soon overshadowed its European trunk. The company expanded even more rapidly under Ernest Bunge's successor, German-born Alfred ("Don Alfredo") Hirsch, who used the grain trade profits to diversify into milling and manufacturing. Since...
J. M. BUNGE Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia
Your photograph of Senator Kennedy surrounded by Oregon's "Cavemen" [March 16] brought back memories of a similar photograph of the Cavemen which appeared during the 1948 presidential campaign. The honored guest at that time was Thomas E. Dewey. PFC WILLIAM R. BUNGE