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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be hard to find three more dissimilar business associates than Bror Dahlberg, Walter S. Mack Jr. and Wallace Groves. Mr. Dahlberg is a smoothfaced, vigorous Swede of 58 who collects Napoleonana, has an ornate office almost as big as Hitler's, runs his business with cosmic scope. Mr. Mack is a relaxed Harvardman with intense blue eyes and nonchalance about money; he likes to consider himself a sort of clinicist for big business. Mr. Groves is a bald, shy Southerner whose financial talents have earned him several million dollars, a reputation as "silent man of Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Design for Making Money | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Masonite was jockeyed into a fine position for revival in building by winning a patent infringement suit in 1933 against Bror Dahlberg's Celotex Corp., No. 1 U. S. wallboard makers. Mr. Dahlberg makes his board of sugar cane fibre. He found, as Inventor Mason did, that hard board could be made from materials other than wood. By giving his sugar cane a little more heat and pressure, he too got a dense, rigid board. But Masonite sued and won, which meant that if anyone wanted hard board they had to buy Presdwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Masonite | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Months ago famed Swedish Humanitarian Eric Dahlberg warned his countrymen what might be the result of Haile Selassie's visit to Stockholm in 1925 as Prince Regent. On that occasion the little Ethiopian persuaded crack Swedish officers including General Virgin to resign from the Army, took them to Addis Ababa where they have trained Ethiopian troops. Said Herr Dahlberg: "We are not sure but what if Italian aviators fail to get our Swedish military instructors at Addis Ababa they may not try to get some of our Swedish ambulance units in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Ethiopia's Lusitania? | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...Receiverships. Two notable companies passed into the hands of receivers last week: Celotex Co. of Chicago and Russell Manufacturing Co. of Middletown. Celotex is a big maker of wallboard and similar products, using the stalks of sugar-cane for pulp. Its president is Bror Gustave Dahlberg. In early 1930 he sent each shareholder a personal telegram urging him not to "sacrifice" his holdings at the then current price ($50 a share). Russell Manufacturing makes automobile brake lining (Rusco), clutch disks, aero cloth, lines, rings and cords, safety belts, acid proof battery covers, surface tape. During the War it had large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deals & Developments | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

Seeking Divorce. Bror Gustave Dahlberg, 51, Swedish-born U. S. sugar tycoon, president of Celotex Co.; from Mary Alexander Dahlberg, one-book author (Dagger); in Chicago. Grounds: desertion. Texas-reared Mrs. Dahlberg refused to live in the U. S., prefers Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

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