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Last week another Brown became president of a company with which he has had less than two years' experience. He is Lewis H. Brown, who, at 35, heads Johns-Manville Corp. (roofing). Mr. Brown succeeds the late Theodore Merseles. Both Mr. Brown and Mr. Merseles came to Johns-Manville in August, 1927, Mr. Merseles as President and Mr. Brown as Assistant to the President. Both Mr. Merseles and Mr. Brown came to Johns-Manville from Montgomery Ward, and both made the change after the House of Morgan had become interested in Johns-Manville. Thus Mr. Brown was, in effect...
...predecessors has been in the hands of the same interests for over three generations. The stock which is now offered, represents the first public offering of any sizeable amount of stock. . . ." This announcement, probably unique in the records of the copper industry, was made last week by Phelps Dodge Corp. when a syndicate offered the public 200,000 new shares (10% of authorized and issued capital stock) which had been bought from British holders. Outstanding points of the Phelps Dodge record...
...goods merchant. In the 1830's Phelps persuaded his son-in-law to join him in establishing Phelps, Dodge & Co. This latter company was extinguished only in 1917 when it merged with its subsidiary, the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. to become the Phelps Dodge Corp. During all this time it has remained under the management of Anson G. Phelps' descendants: William Earle Dodge (junior), his grandson, Cleveland Hoadley Dodge, his great-grandson, and Cleveland E. Dodge, his great-great-grandson...
...Opel Motor Works to General Motors last week became a fact. As in many a domestic merger, the emphasis given denials forecast a deal of large proportions. Thus, last week, no less than three presidents journeyed to Wiesbaden* to sign the contract. They were: the President of General Motors Corp. (Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.); the President of General Motors Export Co. (James David Mooney); the President of Fisher Bodies Corp. (Frederick J. Fisher), chief of the seven money-minting Fisher brothers...
Utilities. Two leading western utility companies will be joined when legal arrangements are completed for the control of Southern California Gas Corp. by Pacific Lighting Corp. Combined assets will...