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British Chemical Trust. Practically all British industrial chemical concerns went under centralized control last week upon the formation of the Imperial Chemical Industries, a half billion dollar concern. The principal components are the Brunner Mond Co. (heavy chem-icals), British Dyestuffs Corp., Nobel industries (explosives), and United Alkali Co., each of which already predominates over its branch of the trade. Earnings of the combine will approximate $20,000,000 yearly, according to Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, chairman. One of his associates, as director, is Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquis of Reading, onetime Viceroy and Governor General of India...
German Shipping. No matter what may be the agreement of German navigation companies against foreign competition, there still remains lively rivalry among them for supremacy in German trade. Thus a fortnight ago the Hamburg-American Line refinanced itself as a $31,000,000 concern and absorbed the German-Australian and Kosmos (to South America) lines. Last spring it bought back three ships once sold to Averell Harriman (TIME, March 15). Its total tonnage is now 879,000. Last week North German Lloyd, apparently somnolescent since the War, increased its capitalization from $8,000,000 to its pre-War total...
Radio. The Federal Telegraph Co. of California (formed in 1911) and the Brandes Products Corp. of the U. S., Canada and England (formed in 1908) merged as Federal-Brandes Inc., $10,000,000 concern. California Capitalist Rudolph Spreckels is chairman, Ellery W. Stone, president. They will continue to make radio equipment...
...Seery, counter-man extraordinary, bus-boy of the first water, is one of those who stand and wait in Arthur's Incorporated. He cannot understand the reason for the agitation and concern over the rapid eating habits of the student body...
...illegible motto, "For Christ and the Church." The founders of Harvard never supposed that the interests of Christ, the Church, and Truth could for a moment come into conflict. When the first rudiments of settlement had been established in Massachusetts, says a document of 1612, the next concern...