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Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. is the U. S. branch of 112-year-old J. G. B. Siegert & Hijos (Sons) Ltd. of Trinidad. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, the firm's present managing director is a grandson of Founder Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a surgeon under Blücher at Waterloo. After Napoleon's fall Johann Siegert went to Angostura in Venezuela, began making his "elixir." Only known ingredients are gentian, common bitters base, and rum. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, Albert Siegert and Krast Siegert are the only three living men who know Angostura Bitters' formula. In case something should happen...
...furniture being moved into Mrs. Simpson's new house and warned him that the political branch of Scotland Yard is "clearing this street." The U. S. photographer refused to be intimidated and made a series of amusing pictures showing Mrs. Simpson's furniture being moved by the firm of Trollope in Belgrave Square. Among journalistic employes of British newspapers indignation at the suppression of the Simpson story was overwhelming last week and these minions, in open defiance of their employers, the Press Lords, gave every assistance they could to U. S. correspondents covering the case. At Ipswich...
...personally was handed four $1,000 and two $500 bills as a down payment and gave a receipt for them. The 50 planes which it hoped to sell Russia were to be priced to yield $20,000 profit apiece, half of which was to go to Elliott or his firm. Salesman Roosevelt showed a model of the planes (Lockheed "Electras" modified for easy conversion to military use) to a delegation of Russian aeronautic engineers. Roosevelt, Fokker & friends worked up a telegraphic code in which the President was "Rochelle," Elliott "New Rochelle," military "industrial," Amtorg Trading Corp. "Ruyork," Moscow "Mosely...
...real speed was punctuated only by the iron voice of the world's most powerful address system, telling the crowd, picnicking on the roof of the bright blue club house or milling around the huge infield, how far Nuvolari was ahead, and how this or that individual or firm was offering a premium on the next lap, which Nuvolari invariably won. William B. Leeds offered $500 to any U. S. driver who won a lap, did not have...
...distribution- mass buying, good merchandising-were not inseparable from the chainstore setup. In 1926 when the grief of independent grocers and wholesalers over chainstore competition was deepest. Accountant Grimes founded IGA. His accounting partners, William W. Thompson and Louis G. Groebe, became IGA secretary and treasurer, respectively. With a firm of advertising and merchandising experts they set up an organization to service retail grocers, show them how to run chainstores without selling out to them. Significant was their idea of doing the servicing not directly but through established wholesalers...