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...cost her $94,000, the yearly endowment $25,000.* Washington festivals supplanted the ones in Pittsfield. There was new music by Ravel, Schönberg, Casella, Respighi, Stravinsky, Bloch. Mrs. Coolidge imported quartets from Europe-the Brosa from London, the Roth from Budapest, the Pro Arte from Belgium, the Busch from Germany. She organized the Elshuco Trio...
House of Budweiser. Under the foremost crest of the beerage, the A and the eagle of Budweiser, Anheuser-Busch mailed to its stockholders its first annual report ever certified by an outside firm of accountants. Messrs. Haskins & Sells did not cast up the Anheuser-Busch statements for any army of public investors. The brewery of the world's most widely distributed beer has less than 200 stockholders. And were it not for the few thousand shares that have dribbled into public hands in the last few years, a single report handed around at a family reunion of the descendants...
Those were probably the most fabulous shares in all corporate history. St. Louis banks were always ready to value them at $25,000 per share as loan collateral, although they had no market. In a private sale one share actually changed hands at $60,000. No one but the Busches and Anheusers ever knew precisely how much money their brewery made, but the executors of Adolphus Busch's estate reported to the courts that they had received $9,100 dividends per share in a 27-month period between...
...revealed little about the conservative old concern except its profits since Beer. Heavy expenses for renovating its brewing business held last year's earnings to a measly $325,000. Even more has been spent on improvements so far this year, but in the seven months through July Anheuser-Busch made...
...House of Anheuser-Busch today stands for many things besides beer. Founder Adolphus' son August Busch managed to pay small dividends pretty regularly through the dry years by making near-beer, yeast, malt and corn syrups, truck bodies, cabinets, Bevo, ice-cream, ginger ale, Diesel engines for U. S. submarines. Other interests include a local coal company, the Hotel Adolphus in Dallas, Tex. and the tiny St. Louis & O'Fallon Ry. whose valuation case in the Supreme Court made railroad history. August Busch died by his own hand two months after Repeal (TIME, Feb. 19). Adolphus Busch...