Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burly Max Amann directs Eher, the firm which publishes both Kampf and Beobachter. Fortnight ago another Berlin newspaper, founded by Jews, nosed the Realmleader's organ out of first circulation place (TIME, April 29). No man to take this lying down is Max Amann. Two years ago Employer Hitler made him President of the Chamber of the German Press with vast theoretical powers. They came in handy last week. Crystalizing them with swift pen strokes, Nazi Max ripped out and signed three decrees mak-ing himself on their face Master of the Press...
...Pont, 70, purchaser, reorganizer and onetime (1902-16) head of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (explosives, chemicals); of heart disease; at "Epping Forest," his estate near Jacksonville, Fla. An explosives expert, Alfred du Pont surprised his family by offering to buy the firm, then at low ebb, upon the death of Eugene du Pont in 1902. After increasing its assets from $15,000,000 to $82,000,000. he was ousted by his cousins Pierre Irénée and Lammot du Pont, with whom he maintained a bitter feud. Irascible, deaf, blind...
Died. Sir Albert Edward Gooderham, 73, Canadian distiller-philanthropist (Gooderham & Worts); of a streptococcus infection; in Toronto. During the War his firm produced for the British Government 75% of all the acetone (used in cordite) made in the Empire...
...purchased the patent of the Mann Railway Sleeping Car Carriage, precursor of Puliman. In Brussels he founded what is now La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Europeens (The International Company of Sleeping Cars and of Great European Expresses). This firm, called Wagons-Lits for short, not only supplies individual dining and sleeping cars to European railways, much as Pullman does to U. S. railways, but also makes up entire trains (except the locomotives), and arranges with a score of governments to run them uninterruptedly across Europe and Asia. Longest (preWar) run under Wagons-Lits auspices...
...deepest convictions were against" chain stores, and "the business was founded on the precisely opposite idea," he soon found himself forced into it by the exciting necessity of expansion. Soon the U. S. was too small for him, he invaded Canada and England, bought the old British firm of Boots. United Drug's peak year (1929) grossed over $106,000,000. But Liggett had his downs as well as his ups. In 1921 he sank his personal fortune in a falling market, had to be rescued by loyal associates. In 1928 United Drug merged with huge Drug...