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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Retiring-Commodore Hartley did not go into the cotton business after all, instead he accepted a post as "chief operating officer" of the Transoceanic Corp., an organization which hopes to borrow money from the Shipping Board to build six fast liners and inaugurate a four-day trans-atlantic service to Europe. Said Chief Operating Officer Hartley: "I thank God for this opportunity ... to put our country back on the high seas...
Engaged. Howard Fisher, youngest of the seven brothers of the Fisher Body Corp. fame; to Miss Justine Price, daughter of the late Lawrence Price, head of the Auto Body Co., onetime leading rival of the Fisher Corp., of Lansing, Mich...
...Zimmerman Engineering & Constructing Co. of Philadelphia and Dwight P. Robinson & Co. Inc. of Manhattan. The four already have contracts for $100,000,000 worth of work in the U. S., South America, Spain. At their head is Dwight Parker Robinson, 58, who, as first president of the International Shipbuilding Corp., developed Hog Island ship yards during the War. Before that he was Stone & Webster's master of engineering and construction activities. And before that he earned de- grees from both Harvard (A.B.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Certain-Teed Products Corp. and of Beaver Board Companies agreed on a $45,000,000 consolidation. Certain-Teed makes shingles & other roofing materials, building & insulated papers, dry asphalt & tarred felt, linoleum and other floor coverings, oil cloth, plaster and gypsum products, paints, varnishes, enamels. Beaver makes roofing materials, gypsum and plaster products, wood fibre boards...
...last March, U. S. Steel was at practically 100%, the *independents* at 87%. Expectations for this spring are the same. ±Made chiefly by his activities in public utilities at Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, Kansas City, Washington, Baltimore, Annapolis. He is a director of the Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corp. and, when in Manhattan always stops at the Biltmore. **Another Otis partner is Joseph Oriel Eaton (president of Eaton Axle & Spring Co.), no relative to Cyrus Stephen Eaton...