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Electric. When the same man is chairman of two companies in similar lines and one of these companies owns a 13% interest in the other, besides having an agreement to give it financial service, a merger in which the first company offers to acquire the remaining stock of the second is not astounding news. Last week this condition occurred when Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell's Electric Bond and Share Co. offered to exchange its stock for Electric Investors, Inc. While Electric Investors, Inc. is a strict holding company with 87% of its investments in utilities, Electric Bond and Share...
...Fords. Measured by the simple yardstick of units produced, the automobile industry would appear to be thriving. Yet while the number of cars manufactured during the first eight months of 1929 showed a 37.2% increase* over the same period last year, this was almost entirely accounted for by the phenomenal rise in Ford production. In July and August this Ford increase offset the decline shown by other manufacturers and accounted for approximately 40% of the total cars produced in the U. S. and Canada. These facts are illustrated in the following table compiled by the Wall Street Journal...
...Goods. In 1872 Lyman Bloomingdale, an assembler of hoop skirts, was left jobless by fashion changes. He opened a dry goods store, recorded net sales of $3.63 the first day. In 1928 Bloomingdale Bros. (Manhattan) reached the net sales total of $23,000,000. Last week it finally joined a long-planned department store merger which will consolidate it with Abraham & Straus (Brooklyn-Started in 1865 by Abraham Abraham, who was joined in 1893 by Isidor Straus, chinaware merchant), William Filene's Sons Co. (Boston-Headed by William E. Filene who unsuccessfully sought injunctions to prohibit large stockholders, including...
...apparently still groggy from the recent topping of the $100,000,000,000 mark in total life insurance. Titles of addresses were: "The Market for the Second Hundred Billion," "The Conservation of Human Life in the Era of the Second Hundred Billion," "Creating the Second Hundred Billion," "Conserving the First While We Create the Second Hundred Billion," "Selling to Women in the Era of the Second Hundred Billion," "The Second Hundred Billion Salesman: He Faces East...
...species of chickens, called the "red and white," which Poland has adopted as its "national breed'' as a way of paying him a compliment. His chateau, four stories high, with a wooden chalet roof, was built by the Count de Maaroes and stands on a site first used by Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto, Napoleon's Minister of the Interior. From the terrace on which he was sitting the ground tapered away into a shadowy skirt of pines, cedar, lindens he had laid out himself - the park. With his Polish land sold, now that Pilsudski...