Word: inc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-trust laws had never done, and saw one of the gigantic corporations which 1929 had created out of big and little ones, voluntarily and deliberately decide to disband-saw, grimmest of all, the financial community giving tacit approval to the act. A. H. Diebold, president of Drug Inc.. last week sent a letter to his 30,000 stock-holders inviting them to vote Aug. 7 on splitting up Drug Inc. into five companies. What is more he told his stockholders that Drug Inc.'s directors had come to the unanimous conclusion that the company would be better...
...beginning (1928) Drug Inc. was a simple two-way union between a curiously assorted couple that had one thing in common: each earned about $6,000,000 a year. The groom was Louis Kroh Liggett's United Drug Co. The business of United Drug was and is to manufacture drugs and other drug store items for sale exclusively by its own retailers, in chief 10,000-odd Rexall Drug Stores. While United Drug's original business was manufacturing not retailing, some of its Rexall dealers had from time to time decided to retire from business and Mr. Liggett...
...stores, and conversely United Drug's manufactures could not be distributed by Sterling-they were for sale exclusively by Rexall stores. Therefore the two spouses could beget no common offspring. Yet they at once proceeded to adopt children. The adoptions were made in the joint name of Drug Inc.. but were really of two kinds: 1) The groom's adoptions consisting of several drug store chains: B. & R. Drug Stores (1928), May Drug Stores (1929), Wolff Wilson Drug Co. (1929), Owl Drug...
...bride's adoptions consisting of manufacturers of national trade market articles: Life Savers, Inc. (1929), Three-in-One Oil Co. (1929), Bristol-Myers (1929). Household Products, Inc. (1930), Vick Chemical...
Several of the latter, however, were full grown businesses accepted into Drug Inc. on the understanding that they were to maintain private establishments of their own. For example...