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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ivar Kreuger went to the Swedish Polytechnic Institute, became an engineer. Kreuger & Toll started business as an engineering firm. But, when Father Kreuger became involved in serious difficulties, Son Ivar left engineering and turned to matchmaking. His initial success was the 1913 merger. When his combine wedded the Jonkoping group in 1917, Matchmaker Kreuger made the match. He is managing director of Swedish Match, president of International Match, chairman of the board of Swedish-American Investment Corp., and, of course, head of all-controlling Kreuger & Toll...
...Johns, elderly, heavyset, deep voiced. He told them that this was the happiest day of his life. He told them that the George Batten Co., Inc., and the Barton, Durstine & Osborne Co., Inc., had been united in a new company-Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, Inc. Meanwhile, to a group of Barton, Durstine & Osborne employes, Roy C. Durstine, short, wiry, made essentially the same announcement. So was made public the greatest advertising merger of many a year...
Rubber. The British Stevenson Act controlling the production of rubber in the Orient expires Nov. 1. London despatches last week reported British and Dutch rubber plantation owners, who control the world's present output, conferring to form a private group to restrict rubber production, to create an artificial shortage, to shove prices...
...group of Harvard graduates are backing the plans for the proposed building. They intend, in the erection of the new Beck Hall, to furnish a permanent home for Harvard alumni and those connected with the University close to the College itself. Advantageous in its position near the Harvard Union, with entrance on Harvard Street, it will be possible for graduates of the University to make it a center of their activities while here in Cambridge. Davis stated that the construction of an assembly hall for social functions had even been considered...
...Harvard men are in back of the idea. Harvard men will-continue to back the project. It is proposed that a representative group of well known graduates will form the Directorate of the finished building. The shops along Massachusetts Avenue will provide easy shopping facilities and the garage will take care of a problem that has proved embarrassing to residents in the past...