Word: colemans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CLARENCE L. COLEMAN JR. President...
...Southampton and Bar Harbor are the.same ones who whip out the frothy fox trots at the coming-out balls in the fall, at the canopied weddings in June; two generations of debutantes have been presented, courted and married under the batons of such bandleaders as Meyer Davis and Emil Coleman. Perhaps the busiest of the musical blue bloods is a springy, raw-nerved little man named Lester Lanin, who believes that nothing in life is more important than serving good music to "society...
...Coleman, Texas...
...Coleman acquired a deposit in California's Death Valley. In 120° heat he began mining borax in the valley 280 ft. below sea level. To transport the ore over jagged peaks and through the desert to Mojave, Calif., he formed the famed 20-mule team (actually 18 mules and two horses), was soon hauling out 2,500,000 tons of ore annually...
...Broke. Poor financing did what the elements could not, and by 1888 Coleman was bankrupt. Borax Smith took over Coleman's mining properties, consolidated all his mines into the Pacific Coast Borax Co. and, to boost European sales, merged with a British chemical company headed by James Gerstley, father of present U.S. Borax President Gerstley. But Smith also overextended himself, also went broke. To pay creditors, he was forced to sell out his stock to Gerstley and other Britons with holdings in the new company, which eventually became known as Borax (Holdings) Ltd. Domination of U.S. borax mining passed...