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...Ford-I. G. F. combination followed closely upon I. G. F.'s establishment of a U. S. Subsidiary which included among its directorate National City's Charles Mitchell, International Acceptance's Paul Warburg, Standard Oil of New Jersey's Walter Teagle, Ford's Edsel Ford (TIME, May 6). Just as this linking of interests had been interpreted as a linking of Standard Oil and I. G. F. to compete actively with the du Pont interests, so the Ford-I. G. F. consolidation was considered a Standard Oil-Ford-I. G. F. alliance against du Pont...
...Edsel Ford dug the first turf last week for a new Ford plant in Degenham, Essex, England. So manfully dug he that he bent his silver spade. The factory, to be finished in less than three years, will employ 15,000, make 300,000 Fords yearly...
...shrilled at U. S. financiers for associating with the "notorious" German Dye Trust, harked back to War days in which German chemists had unkindly embarrassed the U. S. dye industry through failure to publish their dye patents and processes, and closed with an unfriendly gibe at the presence of Edsel Ford and Paul Warburg on the same directorate...
...Jersey, National City Bank, International Acceptance and Ford Motors, the American I. G. Chemical Corp. included on its directorate Herren Doktoren Bosch, Schmitz and Greif of I. G. Dyes, President Walter Teagle of Standard Oil, Chairman Mitchell and Warburg of the two Manhattan banking houses, and President Edsel Ford of Ford. What proportion of the new company's stock will be held, respectively, by its U. S. and German interests is not stated. Control, however, was assumed to rest at Frankfort on the Main...
...floating platform intended to be anchored far at sea, first between Manhattan and Bermuda, later perhaps in a chain across the Atlantic. In another scheme an airport was built on trestles over the Manhattan water front. Gorham's craftsmen exhibited a bronze door for the Detroit home of Edsel Ford and a silver tea set valued at $38,000 which was hidden each evening in a safety vault. Ten construction companies joined in presenting a series of scenic tableaux representing modern processes of building...