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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Customers. Best U. S. customer is Canada, which buys more goods from the U. S. and sells more to the U. S. than any other country. During 1928, Canada went into first place as best buyer of U. S. goods, passing the United Kingdom. The two together account for about one-third of all U. S. exports. Much of the grain exported to Canada is actually en route to the British Isles, however, which leaves Canada's leadership somewhat unstable. Exports to South America showed a general increase, Argentine buying almost 10% more U. S. merchandise in 1928 than...
...were the cotton bales it turned into cotton cloth. A 1927 textile survey rated Amoskeag as world's largest cotton maker. Its cottons, its wools and its rayons kept busy 800,000 spindles, 25,000 looms. Wherever textiles were mentioned, New England mills and Amoskeag were among the first to be named. But the Waters have not been so Swift lately, and the Place for Fish has not stood so high. Amoskeag's 1928 report was last week read by Amoskeag Treasurer Frederic Christopher Dumaine. Outstanding feature of the report was Treasurer Du-maine's promise...
...weekly. Openhanded, the Riker people gave him $15. Last week the onetime soldier became president of Hudson Motor Car Co. He is William J. McAneeny, now president both of Hudson and of its allied Essex. Coming to Hudson in 1909, as purchasing agent, he advanced rapidly, was made first Essex president when the company was formed (1918). President McAneeny succeeds the late R. B. Jackson, who died last month in Mentone. Prosperous are both divisions of the McAneeny family. In March, Hudson shipped 44,295 cars, exceeding its March 1928 (record month) production by almost 11,000. Hudson-Essex, combined...
...announce their financial standing. De Saint Phalle & Co., revealed total assets of some $33,000,000. Last week it appeared that the same prosperous, socially prominent de Saint Phalles* would sponsor yet another innovation. Within two months, their office (at No. 11 Wall St.) will boast Manhattan's first electric quotation board. This device, which will separate many a "board boy" from his $15-a-week job, mechanically marks up prices as swiftly as the new tickers, giving five quotations for each stock: the last night's close, day's opening, high, low and latest...
This was the first reference to the Harvard Business School in the course of the investigation...