Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were fastened to the wires and rope strung through the rings. By holding the ropes the runners kept in a straight line. Blind Bito (New York) won the high jump. He gauged the height of the, bar by touching it with his fingers. Blind Di Martino (Boston) received a gold medal for scoring most points, but at the end of the day his team was beaten...
President George K. Morrow of the Gold Dust Corp. telephoned lawyers of John D. Rockefeller last week. Mr. Rockefeller and his friends owned 95,000 shares of American Linseed Co.'s preferred stock, and President Morrow wanted that preferred stock as a good beginning toward buying full control of American Linseed. Later he would deal with Laird, Bissell & Meeds (investment bankers) and others who owned American Linseed common stock...
...Gold Dust had similar trouble with the cotton seed oil, feeds and other derivatives made by the American Cotton Oil Co. which it absorbed in 1923. The cotton oil business did not pay. Gold Dust abandoned it and pushed the sale of cleansers made by the American Cotton Oil's subsidiary, N. K. Fairbank Co. Those cleansers are Gold Dust, Fairy Soap, Sunny Monday Soap and like products. To them President Morrow late in 1925 added by purchase the shoe polishes of the F. F. Dalley Corp.-Shinola, Two-in-One, Bixby brands. Early this year he was negotiating...
American Linseed has not tried to abandon flaxseed products. But ten years ago it began to develop a sideline. Just as American Cotton Oil (now Gold Dust) pushed its soaps, American Linseed began to make and push a line of foodstuffs-Nucoa Nut margarine, Best Foods mayonnaise, relish spreads, thousand island dressing, shortening, Bread & Butter pickle relish. On the Pacific Coast its Gold Medal mayonnaise is the favorite salad dressing. Of these food items American Linseed, said Chairman Robert H. Adams this spring, last year sold $17,000,000 worth. Last February the Atlantic & Pacific chain groceries alone sold...
...this the Gold Dust people have well known, plus the additional fact that John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his associates were inclined to sell their American Linseed stock. There were pourparlers and offers, so that last week Gold Dust's President George K. Morrow need merely put through a telephone call to the Rockefeller counsel. The talk was brief-a new corporation, Gold Dust American Corp., would be formed and for its stock the Rockefellers would exchange their American Linseed preferred stock. Minority preferred holders and the commonholders would have opportunity to trade their shares for the new company...