Word: gold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sponge cake, there was now lively apprehension lest that same demand should wreck the Conference and prevent adoption of the Young Plan. "They feel," said Mr. Lamont, allowing himself to be directly quoted, "that failure to reach some agreement would mean international derangement. They feel it would endanger the gold standard [of Sterling] and would threaten British financial losses far greater than £2,000,000 a year?...
Inoperative for three months was the United Stores Corp., formed as a holding company last June to assume control of United Cigars Co., Tobacco Products Corp. (TIME, June 17). Although George K. Morrow and Frederick K. Morrow, heads of the Gold Dust Corp., were then announced as dominant figures in the new holding concern, George J. Whelan, oldtime United Cigar Store tycoon, continued to manage the affairs of the two tobacco companies...
Still inoperative last week, United Stores Corp. seemed almost certain of passing out of existence as a new consolidation of United Cigars Co., Tobacco Products Corp., Gold Dust Corp. interests appeared. This time the Morrows and others acquired majority stock holdings of the tobacco companies, whose assets amount to some $200,000,000. At a directors' meeting George K. Morrow was elected President and Board Chairman of both companies, Mr. Whelan was retained on the directorates...
Recurring also was the reason advanced that the consolidation would greatly enhance the facilities of Gold Dust Corp., which has been engaged in distributing trademarked food products, soap, washing and scouring powders, shoe polishes, other articles. Natural was the assumption that United Cigar Stores, Whelan Drug Stores, the other Tobacco Products Corp. outlets, which altogether number some 92,000 stores reaching from coast to coast, would (become potent retail points for Gold Dust products...
Married. Eleanora Ambrose Maurice, 27, widow and partner of the late Dancer Maurice (Mouvet); to Samuel Katz, 37, potent president of Publix Theatres, of which there are 1,100, including Manhattan's gold-domed Paramount Theatre; in Stamford, Conn. For his bride Cinemagnate Katz is constructing a "city" on a hillside near Centenary, N. Y. It will contain lakes, bridges, swimming pools, 150-car garage, tennis courts, bowling alleys, a house that would cover an entire city block, a separate "hotel" for Katz guests...