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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President William Green of the A. F. of L. was the one who advised the porters to postpone their strike "for obvious reasons." He sympathized, hoped they would win ultimately...
Capt. Charles F. Kingsford-Smith and Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm, Australians, with Capt. Harry W. Lyon and James Warner, of the U. S., lingered curiously, glanced at their watches. Behind them were 5,538 miles of the vast Pacific. Before them lay "Aussie"*and safety and, for two of them, secure places in the list of illustrious Australian airmen. They thought of Wilkins, warming his hands after spanning the roof of the world (TIME, April 30); they thought of Bert Hinkler, lone voyager in an incredibly tiny plane (TIME, March 5); they thought back to Sir Ross Smith, pioneer...
...abandoned it and pushed the sale of cleansers made by the American Cotton Oil's subsidiary, N. K. Fairbank Co. Those cleansers are Gold Dust, Fairy Soap, Sunny Monday Soap and like products. To them President Morrow late in 1925 added by purchase the shoe polishes of the F. F. Dalley Corp.-Shinola, Two-in-One, Bixby brands. Early this year he was negotiating to add Ball fruit jars and Crosse & Blackwell's good English jams, marmalades and other dainties. The Gold Dust Corp. stock is worth at current quotations...
...name of the new corporation is Consolidated Merchandising Corp., and is a merging, through F. J. Lisman & Co. (investment bankers), of important vending machine manufacturers: Automatic Merchandising Corp. of America (United Cigar Stores has a large share in this one); Sanitary Postage Service Corp. (its machines sell one and two cent stamps in 30,000 drug stores, ten postoffices); General Vending Corp. (36,000 ubiquitous automatic weighing machines) ; Hoff Vending Corp. (Wrigley gums, Life Savers candies); Seher Mack Corp. of America; Remington Service Machines, Inc. Remington Arms Co. is to manufacture these mechanical merchants...
...Viking Press, rounding out its third year of publishing, announces an interesting list of books scheduled to appear next Fall Ford Madov Ford is contributing a new historical romance. "A Little Less than Gods", and T. F. Powys follows up his "Mr Weston's Good Wine" of this Spring, with a group of short stories The little blue volumes of "Sakis" short stories which are beginning to recover and enlarge upon then pre-war popularity in England will receive another addition next fall...