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...brothers organized the American Smelting & Refining Co. and the Chile Copper Co. (cheapest and greatest copper producers). They developed copper mines in Alaska, tin mines in Bolivia and nitrate beds in Chile. Daniel Guggenheim, with the late Thomas Fortune Ryan and Bel gian, French and Portuguese financiers and politicians, worked up diamond mines in the Congo region. The Guggenheims, Daniel and his brothers, attribute much of their fortune to their hiring experts at no matter what cost and to maintaining the welfare of their employes...
...entries: Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Schroeder-Wentworth Associates of Glencoe, Ill., Charles Ward Hall of Buffalo, Heraclio Alfaro of Cleveland, J. S. McDonnell Jr. & Associates of Milwaukee, Brunner-Winkle Aircraft Corp. of Brooklyn. Foreign entries: De Havilland Co., Handley-Page Ltd., Vickers Ltd., Gloster Aircraft Co. and Cierva Autogiro, all of England; Societa Italiana Ernesto Breda of Milan...
When, last fortnight, J. P. Morgan & Co. announced a merger of three potent New York State power companies (TIME, June 24), only New York Staters were deeply interested. When, last week, final approval of the long-pending merger of Continental Oil and Marland Oil companies was interpreted as first step in a national Morgan oil corporation, public interest was wider but still quiescent. But also announced last week was a Morgan-managed merger of Fleischmann Co., Royal Baking Powder Co., and E. W. Gillett, Ltd.* At that the country sat up and took sharp notice...
...merger because Royal Baking Powder has large holdings of its stocks. The holding company which will control Fleischmann and Royal is expected to purchase Chase & Sanborn control. Many another food company was mentioned as likely to join the Fleischmann-Royal combination, especially Campbell Soup, Gold Dust, Postum Co., Inc., Kraft-Phoenix Cheese Corp. Securities of the three companies already merged had last week a market value of about...
...Fleischmann distribution system is not the "invention" of any one man. It was developed along with the growth of the company. No transportation problem existed in 1868 when Charles and Maximilian Fleischmann, immigrants from Austria-Hungary, and James Gaff of Cincinnati, founded Gaff, Fleischmann & Co. at Riverside, Ohio. Their first great forward step was made in 1876 when they exhibited a Model Vienna Bakery at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. From the fame of this exhibit came an increased demand for Fleischmann's yeast. Soon there was a Fleischmann plant on Long Island, then another at Peekskill, N. Y, Guiding...