Word: frenches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic Clipper from Lisbon came pert, mustachioed J. Frédéric Bloch-Laine to head the French purchasing mission. He is no easy mark for U. S. salesmen-he began buying war goods as a member of France's U. S. mission in World War I. As member of the Paris banking house of Lazard Fréres, he also knows how business between the two countries is done in peacetime. No sooner had word of his arrival spread than eager agents began banging on his door at the French Line offices...
...arrive from Canada last week was another gentleman who has been around: potent, bushy-browed Arthur Blaikie Purvis. Head of the U. S. wing of the British purchasing commission he, like his French confrere, is returning to an old job. In 1914 he was the first British munitions buyer to reach the U. S. His peacetime job is president of Canadian Industries, Ltd. (makers of explosives, fertilizers, paint, plastics, industrial chemicals) which means he knows the chemical industry like a book...
Some considerable war purchases in the U. S. have been made and kept dark because of the sellers' craving anonymity; most big deals rumored have yet to be signed & sealed. Biggest is the French purchase of South American copper; 25,000 tons a month for six months. If it goes through, the deal will amount to $42,000,000, enrich U. S. coppermen with South American mines. The chief war orders whose existence could be confirmed last week were...
...President Edward Sanborn French of B. & M., which has $60,000,000 of debt coming due within five years, Jesse Jones outlined a recapitalization plan to put through before bankruptcy becomes unavoidable. His main proposals...
Harassed President French replied: ". . . The proposed plan would avoid the waste, expense and losses which would be involved in a judicial proceeding which would probably be necessary. . . ." Other not-yet-insolvent railroads wondered whether Mr. Jones would urge similar plans on them...