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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scott Durand, rich Chicago sugar dealer, North Shore socialite, learned while junketing in South America that he had been indicted by the U. S. Government for controlling, with six others, a chain of alcohol stills. Friends of Mr. Durand laid the charge to overzealousness of Federal sleuths, pointed out that a corn sugar dealer is not responsible for what his clients make out of corn sugar...
Fire destroyed the 28-room mansion of Joseph Edmund Sterrett, partner in Price, Waterhouse & Co. (accountants), Dawes Plan expert, at Redding Ridge, Conn. Built in 1911 for the late William Luttgen, Morgan partner and commodore of the New York Yacht Club, the estate contains a chain of ponds through which the old commodore used to toot proudly but briefly in a miniature steam yacht...
Elsewhere, even in chain stores, smokers of the "Big Four" brands had to pay from 11? to 15? a package. Mr. Hill had not quite kept his promise-yet. He had cut the wholesale price of his Luckies from $6 per 1,000 (to which they were reduced from $6.85 last month) to $5.50 per 1,000. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Chesterfield), R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel) and P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold), who always act with Mr. Hill in price questions, followed suit. Dealers get a trade discount of 65? per 1,000. A price...
Died. John D. Ryan, 68, board chairman of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; suddenly, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Because his father was an able copper man, he shied away from copper, bought into a chain of Montana banks at 37, lined up with Amalgamated Copper Co.'s famed Henry H. Rogers in a copper war with Fritz Augustus Heinze. His spoils included Amalgamated's presidency in 1908. In 1910 he merged it into Anaconda, was set for the Wartime copper boom, built Anaconda by cheerful pugnacity and serious business into a $700,000,000 company...
Last week the following were news: Largest chain of cinemansions in the Midwest is Chicago's Balaban & Katz Corp., first to install theatre refrigeration, first to cut dull shots from newsreels. When Paramount Publix Corp. acquired Balaban & Katz seven years ago B. & K.'s president, Sam Katz, became Paramount Publix's vice president in charge of theatre operations. For the past two years Paramount Publix has not been doing so well (see p. 46), nor has B. & K., which lately passed its $7 preferred stock dividend. Two months ago Sam Katz resigned from Paramount Publix after directors...