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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan-Philadelphia financier, and his associates of Dieppe Corp. (including Financier William Kissam Vanderbilt Jr., Banker Jules Semon Bache, Cinemagnates Adolph Zukor, Joseph M. Schenck, Producer Florenz Ziegfeld), were freed last week from long litigation, proceeded with their plans to remodel Manhattan's Central Park Casino as "a dining place for New York society . . . around which the cultured life of the city can rotate." Announced features: a black glass ballroom, an orange terrace, a tulip pavilion...
From the treasury of Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America went last week 400,000 shares of Fokker stock. Purchaser was General Motors which with its purchase (40% of Fokker outstanding stock) gained control. In part payment for the Fokker stock, General Motors turned over to Fokker the capital stock of the Dayton-Wright Co., assets of which consist mainly of Wright Field, Dayton Aviation Field adjoining the famed but abandoned McCook Field (Wartime Army aviation center) and also a large number of aviation patents.* Following so closely upon General Motors' acquisition of a 25% interest in Bendix Aviation Corp...
...also rumored last week that General Motors would take a 15 million dollar interest in Aviation Corp., 200 million dollar aircraft holding company, which would then take over Delco-Remy (General Motors subsidiary) and Bendix...
...holding company, Manufacturers' Aircraft Association, in which nearly all U. S. aviation patents were pooled, each contributor having an equity in the profits on all the patents. General Motors has, all along, been represented in the Association through membership of two subsidiaries, Dayton-Wright Co. and Fisher Bodies Corp...
...Edward M. Knox, son of Founder Charles Knox, and before the arrival of the present management, which, under the leadership of President F. H. Montgomery, showed net earnings in 1928 of $859,997, or $10.10 a share on common stock. Acquiring Dunlap & Co. (1919), Long's Hat Stores Corp. (1927), Kaskel & Kaskel Corp. (1928), Knox Hat Co., Inc., today operates 62 retail stores as well as distributing Knox and Dunlap hats through some 2,500 agencies. Net sales in 1928 were...