Word: holt
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Anglo-Canadian Pulp & Paper Mills, Ltd. (controlled by Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Lord Rothermere; brother of late great Lord Northcliffe; owner of London Daily Mail, London Evening News, Sunday Dispatch, Northcliffe Newspapers, Ltd.), consolidated with Canada Power & Paper Corp. (controlled by Sir Herbert Samuel Holt and James Henry Gundy who recently [TIME, June 2] consolidated Canadian steel and coal properties). The combined companies, 97% British and Canadian controlled, will have daily newsprint capacity of 2,500 tons, largest in British Empire...
Dean of Canadian financiers is venerable Sir Herbert Samuel Holt. 74, who migrated from Dublin, Ireland, at 19. He is considered Canada's richest man, but his wealth has come from no single accomplishment. It represents his profits from a long association with Canada's industrialization. He was one of the leaders in the tireless group who built the Canadian Pacific. So soon as the last spike was driven, Sir Herbert went to South America and built the Trans-Andean railroad. After this interlude he returned to Montreal, battled for light and gas companies, in 1908 became president...
...steel companies on which the Holt-Gundy group has been working are headed by British Empire Steel Corp., mighty in name but feeble in earnings. Into its pyramid of steel, coal and iron companies many receivers have tried to gain passage, have been halted only by the improvements that followed the purchase of control by Holt-Gundy...
Vernon Munroe Jr. '31, of New York, Crimson track star, last night was elected president of the Student Council at the first meeting of the new board. The fifteen members of the Council, elected last week by popular vote of the student body, also chose Benjamin Holt Ticknor II '31, Captain-elect of the 1930 football team, as vice-president, Richard Norman Clark Jr. '32, of Atlanta, Georgia, as secretary, and Henry Chalfant Jr. '31, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as treasurer...
...Benjamin Holt Ticknor '31, of New York...