Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brother George, after he left St. Michael's College in Toronto, worked for Swift & Co. in Chicago, then for Quaker Oats. After a few years he set up as a broker (Morrow & Co.) in the New York Produce and Sugar Exchanges. He took a hand in Gold Dust Corp. of which he is now chairman. He was invited to reorganize American Cotton Oil Co. and did so with such effect that in about five years the value of the company's stock was multi plied 15 times. That was only the begin ning of a career of reorganizations and purchases...
...Juan G. Novelo. In the first scene, Tuluum is not the fortress-like ruin of that name on the Caribbean Sea but is revived with terraces, temples, palaces, facing inland against a background of green sea, blue sky. In the last scene, Chichen-Itza rears its pyramids from the dust of ages...
Inoperative for three months was the United Stores Corp., formed as a holding company last June to assume control of United Cigars Co., Tobacco Products Corp. (TIME, June 17). Although George K. Morrow and Frederick K. Morrow, heads of the Gold Dust Corp., were then announced as dominant figures in the new holding concern, George J. Whelan, oldtime United Cigar Store tycoon, continued to manage the affairs of the two tobacco companies...
Still inoperative last week, United Stores Corp. seemed almost certain of passing out of existence as a new consolidation of United Cigars Co., Tobacco Products Corp., Gold Dust Corp. interests appeared. This time the Morrows and others acquired majority stock holdings of the tobacco companies, whose assets amount to some $200,000,000. At a directors' meeting George K. Morrow was elected President and Board Chairman of both companies, Mr. Whelan was retained on the directorates...
Recurring also was the reason advanced that the consolidation would greatly enhance the facilities of Gold Dust Corp., which has been engaged in distributing trademarked food products, soap, washing and scouring powders, shoe polishes, other articles. Natural was the assumption that United Cigar Stores, Whelan Drug Stores, the other Tobacco Products Corp. outlets, which altogether number some 92,000 stores reaching from coast to coast, would (become potent retail points for Gold Dust products...