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...Solvay & Cie is "one of the most powerful chemical companies in the world," interested in I. G. Farbenindustrie of Germany and in British Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. The aim of the Solvay interests in wanting to elect new directors is to steal information for use by Allied's rivals. "The American Chemical industry is today fighting to maintain that [the American] market for American capital and American labor against the organized, combined and ruthless attacks of foreign competition...
Until last fortnight, Death had come to no man in an autogyro. Then LePere et Cie., French autogyro manufacturers, began experiments with a new type of autogyro, lacking auxiliary wings, movable tail surfaces, ailerons, supporting itself solely by its rotor which could be tilted from side to side or fore-&-aft, then locked in the new position. Test Pilot Pierre Martin took it up at the Villacoublay airdrome. He forgot to release the lock on the fore-&-aft control before he left the ground. His autogyro dropped from an altitude of only 150 ft., crashed & killed Pilot Pierre Martin. Hastily...
Nelson Dean Jay (partner of Morgan et Cie., Paris...
...married a Pole, Sybil, daughter of Maurice Washington Kozminski of the French Line, and set himself up in Coblenz as a money changer to confused U. S. soldiers in the Army of Occupation. Later he moved to Paris, opened a Travelers Bank a few doors from Morgan et Cie. By 1928 Banker Neidecker had bought a yacht, put his bank in larger quarters in the Rue de la Paix, where junketing U. S. citizens liked to watch quotations from the New York Stock exchange click up on his big board. For the investment business Banker Neidecker founded Neidecker et Cie...
...Paris the firm of Lee, Higginson et Cie. last week announced a similar move but the affiliated London house, Higginson & Co., planned to continue. A new firm will be formed with outside capital. It will be called Lee, Higginson Corp. and will carry on a securities business in Manhattan, Boston and Chicago. It will also do a small deposit business and trade in acceptances. Being a corporation it can belong to no stock exchange. But while this company will perpetuate the name, last week the career of Boston's old partnership seemed ended...