Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business which Johnny Torrio went into and later sold was a firm named Prendergast Davies Co., Ltd. which then specialized in acquiring Government revenue tax stamps, putting them on cut whiskey. Aware in April 1936 that the Government was investigating his affairs, Johnny Torrio blandly decided on another trip to Italy, applied for a passport. When he went to the White Plains, N. Y. post office to get the decoy registered letter which the Government mailed to him, he was popped into jail. When bail was set at $100,000, his wife produced it in cash from her handbag...
...aimed only against Chinese shipping. Few days later, still without formal declaration of war, Japan went one better, threatened that U. S., British and other foreign ships would also be searched for contraband if they put in at Chinese ports. Despite this neither London nor Washington put down a firm foot even when the British freighter Shengking, on its way to evacuate refugees from Shanghai, was questioned by a Japanese warship before being allowed to plow up the Whangpoo. Meanwhile the blockade not only cut off Chinese supplies but hit the Chinese treasury by reducing the collection of customs revenues...
...reached the Edison factory at West Orange. Dared the company take the chance that this impure iron would cause defective batteries? There was no pure iron available for use. A council of war was called. The minutes of the meeting as reported to the press by the publicity-wise firm...
...marrying the daughter of Sigmund Greenbaum, president of San Francisco's London, Paris & American Bank. Simon and Alexandre Lazard, Alsatian commission merchants who started Lazard Freres in San Francisco during the gold rush, in 1884 formed the London, Paris & American Bank to handle their interests when the firm moved to New York and Paris. Young Fleishhacker rose speedily to the top, but not solely because he married the boss's daughter. Banker Fleishhacker has a cold, keen brain perfectly adapted to his job. In 1932, after various other mergers, the bank grew into the present Anglo California National...
...loam is put on top and in three weeks more the first white pinheads pop out. Each bed bears well for two or three months. Then the tired manure is stripped off, sold to golf courses as a top dressing for $1.50 a ton. The mushrooms themselves, fat, firm and thick as barnacles on a ship, are tended by gloved workmen who wear miners' head lamps to see in the dark...