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Hottest Thing in France. Italian-born Motorman Pigozzi, 56, has had a supercharged rise in the French auto business. He left the scrap business in 1926 to become the French distributor of Italy's Fiat cars. When he ran into import and tariff troubles, he took over a small assembly plant in France. In 1934, after assembling 32,000 Fiats, he bought out a bankrupt auto factory near Paris for $300,000 and organized Simca (Sociéte Industrielle de Mécanique et Carrosserie Automobile). Gradually he loosened his ties with Fiat, and today Simca, while it still...
Into the presidency of Philco Corp. last week stepped James H. Carmine, 52. Carmine, who has sold for Philco all his business life, started in 1923 as a Pittsburgh salesman, climbed to executive vice president in 1949. He was responsible for building the vast Philco distributor chain. As successor to William Balderston, 57, who becomes board chairman, Salesman Carmine has a top-priority job: tuning Philco's merchandising to a buyers' market...
...prime example of this is Murchison's Southern Union Gas Co., the foundation stone of his empire. Started as a gas producer and distributor, Southern Union's earnings were strictly limited by state utility commissions. Murchison "spun off" its gas-and-oil holdings into separate corporations, including Delhi Oil, Barker Dome, Aztec Oil & Gas, Arkansas Western Gas and Texas Southeastern Gas, whose earnings as producers were not regulated. Delhi Oil, the biggest of the children, has since wildcatted its way into 215 producing oil and gas wells in six states and oil reserves of more than 11 million...
...Chasanow that the Navy's Security Appeal Board had reversed the lower board, found him unfit for service. Smith said that, from his own review of the case, he agreed. Chasanow, refusing to give up, demanded a new hearing. This week the Navy reopened the case of Chart Distributor Abraham Chasanow, civic leader...
...past two months one distributor has broken relationships with us. This was not because he wanted to but because of the request of Mr. Lydon who felt that the films we were getting from this place were of commercial value. The film in question was "Arsenic and Old Lace." Before we booked this film, I called Mr. Sumner, manager of the University Theater, which is a member of Allied Theaters for whom Mr. Lydon is the executive secretary, and asked him if he felt that the film was within our educational field and if it would in any way conflict...