Word: directors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week famed Remington Rand Inc., alert typewriter folk of Buffalo, shipped to far-away Angora 3,000 specially made, 31-key, 100% Turkish typewriters. "To build them we had to construct entirely new dies," said Remington Rand's foreign sales director John A. Zellers. "That was what sent the total cost of this shipment up to $400,000" ($133.33 per typewriter...
...avoid these charges many a rich man, instead of owning his own private car, buys sufficient stock to make himself a director of some railroad, to rate an official private car with free transportation all over the country...
...Shreveport, La., stunt-loving Radio Station KWKH, owned by Henderson Iron Works, rushed a plane into the air for an endurance flight to anticipate the time when endurance attempts would become too banal for public attention. The plane stayed up 128 hours. Averred E. B. Redline, flight director: malicious persons put mud in the gasoline supply...
...Leather Co. (Makes one-third of all the sole, belting and harness leather used in the U. S. In June, William Gibbs McAdoo Jr. resigned as first vice president, remained a director. Last year Hiram S. Brown resigned from the presidency to become head of Radio-Keith-Orpheum. Low hide and leather prices resulted in a first quarter deficit of $843,674. Second quarter even less profitable.) First half, net loss 1,969,439 First half, net profit...
Elected. Gerard Swope, president of General Electric Co., to be a director of National City Bank of New York...