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...adult work in Manhattan cutting cloth to cloak & suit patterns for $17 a week; saving of $1,600 and purchase of a Brooklyn ''hole in the wall" for exhibition of what passed for moving pictures in 1904; investment, speculation, expansion as an exhibitor, producer, distributor of films. Last March he bought the Roxy Theatre in Manhattan for "more than $15,000,000" two weeks after it opened. Seating 6,200 people it has been called the "largest theatre in the world," has been entirely filled at practically every performance, to his great profit...
Milk, Mincemeat, Fruit Juice. The Borden business began in 1857 with Gail Borden's discovery of a method of condensing milk. The Borden Company is the present result. In 1927 it was the largest manufacturer of evaporated and condensed milk and the largest distributor of fluid milk and cream in the U. S. It also sold butter, eggs, malted milk, caramels. Recently it acquired ice cream factories. Added to Borden products by merger last week were dried whole milk (Klim and Parlac), dried skimmed milk (Merrell-Soule and Breadlac) mincemeat (None Such), dried orange and lemon juices-all products...
This is the third recent occasion of Wisconsin dairies merging. Previously the National Dairy Products Corp. absorbed the Luick Ice Cream Co.; and the Gridley Dairy Co. (largest milk distributor in the Milwaukee district) bought the Mansfield Ice Cream...
...great pride and great joy that I have just signed the agreement which associates my name with yours." He referred to last week's purchase of Pathé-Cinema control by Kodak Ltd., Mr. Eastman's English firm. The new company Kodak-Pathé, will be sole distributor of Kodak and Pathé in Western Europe. There are separate Eastman kodak companies in England, Canada, Hungary and Australia...
...cash basis. Not one of the 45,000,000 people who in the course of any week visit the 20,250 U. S. theatres would think of giving his promissory note. Admission fees-$700,000,000 last year-are in current money, money that flows from exhibitor to distributor, to producer, to investor-cash, cash. The cinema, with yearly income 50% of its total investment, is a stable, an important industry. And the most important figure in it is a little man, Adolph Zukor, who last week gave a smiling, chattering welcome to his friends-bankers, actors, merchants, politicos-come...