Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undertaking flourished from the first. The river boats offered little competition and had pretty well disappeared by the time Edward H. Harriman was looking for a Chicago entrance for his Union Pacific trunk line from Council Bluffs. He had bought his way into the Illinois Central which Stuyvesant Fish controlled. Now Mr. Fish was a gentleman who tempered empire building with elegance; he did not believe that a person of quality need handle a railroad less gracefully than he would a cravat. His cigars, acumen, and the atmosphere of success and imported cologne that enveloped his person charmed...
...Disconto has dealt with W. A. Harriman & Co. and more recently with Dillon, Read & Co. Deutsche's correspondents have been J. Henry Schroeder & Co. and Speyer...
...Have Acquired a Couple of New Companies-W. A. Harriman...
...Averell Harriman and the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. bought control of the Georg von Giesche Heirs Mining Co. in Poland for $10,000,000 (TIME, June 14). They have just organized the Silesian-American Corp. to operate those Silesian properties as a subsidiary of Anaconda, the first important instance of an industrial enterprise of one 'country so overlording a similar one in another country. Last week Silesian-American sold $15,000,000 collateral trust bonds in Manhattan, to use in operations...
...reasons were rumored, the most popular being I. M. M. wished to mark time until certain of buying U. S. Shipping Board vessels at "reasonable" prices. (The Leviathan may be bought for $10,000,000, all the others for $27,000,000-TIME, July 19). United American Line. Averrell Harriman closed the sale of his Resolute, Reliance and Cleveland to the Wilhelm Cuno's Hamburg-American Line last week. He wished to sell last spring (TIME, Mar. 15). The boats have been too expensive to operate; have brought a good price (over $8,000,000). The money might...