Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austingrad, industrial city projected by the Soviet, will centre around a great Ford plant, will be built by the Austin Co. of Cleveland...
Margarine is a butter substitute made from vegetable oils. Soap is a cleansing agent also made from vegetable oils. Last week buttery oil and sudsy oil flowed together in a merger of a great margarine company and a great soap company. The margarine company was Margarine Unie, a Dutch concern which, with its British affiliate, Margarine Union, is Europe's largest margarine producer. The soap company was Lever Bros., which, with some 200 associated companies, is world's largest soap maker. Inasmuch as both Margarine Union and Lever Bros, control their sources of raw materials and also operate chain store...
...late William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925). Yet he had an excellent claim to the title of World's Greatest Merchant and was certainly in the front rank of the World's Greatest Advertisers. It was also Lever Bros. search for raw materials that resulted in the first great industrial concession made by a nation to a manufacturer, and it was Lord Leverhulme who developed the Belgian Congo more successfully than it had been exploited under the vigorous but scarcely humanitarian methods of Belgium's Leopold...
...Wherever he traveled he left behind him, in strategic spots, a Lever Bros, branch or a Lever Bros, subsidiary. France, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, the U. S.?even China was not too far distant. In 1906 he tried to arrange a consolidation of leading British soapmakers, but the late great Lord Northcliffe raised such an antitrust turmoil that the project was abandoned. Thereupon Mr. Lever sued Lord Northcliffe and other
...knowledge of the confidential code through which bankers transfer money, had written six coded wires, had fraudulently added the six Denver signatures. Banks customarily act upon these coded telegrams without checking back on them. Given a knowledge of the code and a willingness to misuse it, there was no great difficulty in working the $500,000 fraud. Sole precaution on the part of the defrauder was that the money should be collected before the trickery was discovered...