Word: citro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Societe Anonyme André Citroën was heavy on the Paris Bourse one day last week. In a fortnight the stock had tobogganed from 500 francs per share to 260. Andre Citroen, the bald, dapper little "Ford of France," was in swift financial waters. From one excited broker to another sped reports of a general creditors' meeting at the Bank of France. Finally the Agence Economique et Financiére, the Dow, Jones & Co. of Paris, rumbled authoritatively...
Died. Capt. Isaac Edward Emerson, 71, drug manufacturer, president and board chairman of Emerson's Bromo-Seltzer Inc. (a company controlling Citro Chemical Co. of America, Maryland Glass Corp., and Emerson Drug Co.), hotel and realty owner; of heart disease; in Baltimore. Col. Emerson was a famed yachtsman, and with his daughter Margaret (Mrs. Charles Minot Amory, relict of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who died in the Lusitania disaster) a horse breeder...