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Continental Chronicle. Neither ancient nor humble were the Continental Can beginnings. In 1913 three sizable companies-Continental Can of New Jersey, Export and Domestic Can of New York, and Standard Tin Plate of Pennsylvania-combined to form Continental Can Co., Inc. During the next 13 years the company prospered but only in 1926 did Continental Can begin absorbing smaller companies with the steady monotony of an expanding corporation. In the last three years the company has acquired 14 manufacturers scattered over the country. Some of these make tin plate (sheet iron plated with tin) from which cans...
Catchings. Many is the financier who numbers his directorates in dozens. Mr. J. A. Mange, of No. 33 Liberty St. is a director of 104 corporations, from Argosino Electric Plant, Inc. to Yough Manor Mining Co. But there are not many men on the street who are directors of 29 well-known corporations. Such a financier is Waddill Catchings, potent Goldman Sachs partner, whose 29 directorates include B. F. Goodrich Co., Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Postum Co., Cluett, Peabody & Co...
Boxes. Even before the bottle-can merger had been consummated, Mr. Catching's can company bought, complete, the Nashville Corrugated Box Co...
Emerson's Bromo Seltzer, Inc. High in Baltimore's skyline is the bottle-capped top of the Bromo Seltzer Tower building which contains the offices of the Emerson Drug Co., manufacturers of Bromo Seltzer since 1891. Last week a new holding company, Emerson's Bromo Seltzer, Inc., was formed to take over Emerson Drug and the Maryland Glass Corp. Once making only Bromo Seltzer bottles, Maryland Glass devotes now only about 25% of its business to the famed blue bottle, has an annual capacity of 72,00,000 bottles. Over the company will still preside rotund, hard...
Central Alloy Steel Corp. Plans of Cleveland's Cyrus S. Eaton to form a giant alloy and special steel company were rumored when last week the Central Alloy Steel Corp. with which Mr. Eaton is identified, acquired the Interstate Iron and Steel Co. Central Alloy is the dominant U. S. producer of alloy steels. Interstate is a large manufacturer of iron and steel bars and general wire products, with plants adapted to the production of alloy steels. Donner Steel Co. is another manufacturer of special steels recently Eatonized...