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Steel. Republic Iron & Steel Co. (Youngstown, Ohio) approved consolidation with the smaller Steel & Tubes, Inc., (Cleveland, Ohio), for these reasons: Republic can furnish Steel & Tubes with strip steel and pipe, developing its coal and ore reserves, bringing plant operation near capacity. Assets of the two companies total about $200,000,000. Steel & Tubes, Inc., rose from the business of the Wick family of Youngstown and Cleveland. An astute, enterprising Wick is Myron A., now President of Steel & Tubes...
Drugs. Through the organization of the McKesson & Robbins Holding Co., U.S. wholesale druggists consolidated an annual sales volume of $80,000,000. Into the merger came: McKesson & Robbins Co. (N.Y., Conn.); Gibson Snow Co. (N.Y.); Bedsole-Colvin Co. (Ala.); Churchill Co. (Ill., Iowa, Neb.); Eastern Co. (Mass.); Farrand, Williams & Clark Co. (Mich.); Faxon & Gallagher Co (Mo.); Fuller Morrison Co. (Ill.); Halvan Gorder Co. (O.); Kirk, Geary & Co. (Calif.); Langley Michaels Co. (Calif.); Minneapolis Co. (Minn.); Murray Co (S.C.); Roeber & Kuebler (N.J.); Southern Co. (Tex.); Western Wholesale Co. (Calif., Ariz...
When Inventor O'Grady exhibited his apparatus last week at L. Bamberger & Co.'s Newark department store the colors seemed natural. But the pictures, shown large, flickered. Positives can be printed in any numbers from the original film, an advantage commercially. Entrepreneurs at once offered Mr. O'Grady a million dollars for his invention. He refused it. He has his own company going-on a small scale, last week...
Seven U. S. radio stations last week were broadcasting pictures. Two were operating regularly, four irregularly. The last were testing out their frequencies. The stations: WGY, Schenectady, N. Y. (General Electric); KDKA, East Pittsburgh, Pa. (Westinghouse); WRNY, New York (Experimenter Publishing Co.); 3XK, Washington (Jenkins Laboratories); 2XAL, New York (Experimenter Publishing Co.) ; 1XAY, Lexington, Mass. (Donald R. Lafflin); 4XA, Memphis, Tenn. (Wrec., Inc.); 9XAA, Chicago (Chicago Federation of Labor...
Retired. Harry Bates Thayer, chairman of the board of A. T. & T., after 47 years in the service of the Bell System. The first telephone conversation in history* took place only five years before young Thayer went to work for the Western Electric Co. He saw the Bell System's investment increase from $25,000,000 to more than $3,500,000,000. No man will ever fill his place, since grateful A. T. & T. last week discontinued the office of chairman of the board...