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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very least typographical impress, even so much as given a fact-hungry list of subscribers, newsstandbuyers, Junior Leaguers, et al., the faintest inkling concerning the merger of Agfa, superpotent Chemical combine, German-owned, with the 86-year old U. S. owned Ansco Photoproducts, Inc. to form Agfa Ansco Corp.; neither did you give, in your article headed "Vanity Kodaks" on p. 45, June 4 issue, proper credit to Ansco for pioneering colored cameras three years ago, when Ansco, too, named this product "Vanity Ansco," available, then as now, in 5 distinct shades for milady's approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

President George K. Morrow of the Gold Dust Corp. telephoned lawyers of John D. Rockefeller last week. Mr. Rockefeller and his friends owned 95,000 shares of American Linseed Co.'s preferred stock, and President Morrow wanted that preferred stock as a good beginning toward buying full control of American Linseed. Later he would deal with Laird, Bissell & Meeds (investment bankers) and others who owned American Linseed common stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold Dust & Best Foods | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...pushed the sale of cleansers made by the American Cotton Oil's subsidiary, N. K. Fairbank Co. Those cleansers are Gold Dust, Fairy Soap, Sunny Monday Soap and like products. To them President Morrow late in 1925 added by purchase the shoe polishes of the F. F. Dalley Corp.-Shinola, Two-in-One, Bixby brands. Early this year he was negotiating to add Ball fruit jars and Crosse & Blackwell's good English jams, marmalades and other dainties. The Gold Dust Corp. stock is worth at current quotations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold Dust & Best Foods | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...associates were inclined to sell their American Linseed stock. There were pourparlers and offers, so that last week Gold Dust's President George K. Morrow need merely put through a telephone call to the Rockefeller counsel. The talk was brief-a new corporation, Gold Dust American Corp., would be formed and for its stock the Rockefellers would exchange their American Linseed preferred stock. Minority preferred holders and the commonholders would have opportunity to trade their shares for the new company's stock. American Linseed (worth $37,687,500) plus Gold Dust (worth $29,464,300) together make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold Dust & Best Foods | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...name of the new corporation is Consolidated Merchandising Corp., and is a merging, through F. J. Lisman & Co. (investment bankers), of important vending machine manufacturers: Automatic Merchandising Corp. of America (United Cigar Stores has a large share in this one); Sanitary Postage Service Corp. (its machines sell one and two cent stamps in 30,000 drug stores, ten postoffices); General Vending Corp. (36,000 ubiquitous automatic weighing machines) ; Hoff Vending Corp. (Wrigley gums, Life Savers candies); Seher Mack Corp. of America; Remington Service Machines, Inc. Remington Arms Co. is to manufacture these mechanical merchants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Mergers: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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