Word: buts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Continental Chronicle. Neither ancient nor humble were the Continental Can beginnings. In 1913 three sizable companies-Continental Can of New Jersey, Export and Domestic Can of New York, and Standard Tin Plate of Pennsylvania-combined to form Continental Can Co., Inc. During the next 13 years the company prospered but...
Catchings. Many is the financier who numbers his directorates in dozens. Mr. J. A. Mange, of No. 33 Liberty St. is a director of 104 corporations, from Argosino Electric Plant, Inc. to Yough Manor Mining Co. But there are not many men on the street who are directors of 29...
In many cases he is not only a director in name but also in active fact. Thus, of Continental Can he is chairman of the executive committee, besides being its most famed student of economics. To add the problems of bottles to the problems of cans will be, for him...
Expansions promised by Mr. Fox far outstripped the ordinary bounds of showmanship. He promised not only installation of his "grandeur" proscenium-filling screen, and cinema houses devoted to newsreels, but magnificently he offered one fourth of his fortune (which newsmen were permitted to estimate at $36,000,000) to develop...
Less convincing than his generosity was Cineman Fox's foxiness. Offered in 1925, Fox Theatres stock has paid no dividends, has never responded to continued reports of expansion. In 1928 its earnings were $1.91 a share. Previous attempts to distribute the stock, mostly held by speculators, have been unsuccessful...