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...away the biggest maker of tin-plate and tin cans in France is J. J. Car-naud & Forges des Basse-Indre. Last week Continental Can Co. Inc. announced that it had granted this company its patents on canning and canning machinery, will receive royalties in future. Prior to the arrangement, Continental disposed of its stock interest in Compagnie Franco-Con-tinentale de Boites Metalliques, acquired last year. In England, Continental has a minority interest in Metal Box Co., Ltd. Continental's bigger rival, American Can Co., has a substantial interest in British Can Co. Ltd., maker...
Appointed. David 0. Selznick, 28, resigned vice president of Paramount Pictures (TiME, Aug. 3); to be executive vice president in charge of production of RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. which plans to merge studio facilities with RKO Pathe, Inc. As vice president of RKO Pathe, Mr. Selznick will be in charge of consummating the merger...
...German officer; Thomas Alva Edison Jr., consulting engineer to Edison industries; William Leslie Edison, 53, inventor, of Wilmington, Del. The children of Mrs. Mina Miller Edison, who is mentioned in the will as having been "adequately provided for," are Charles Edison, 41, president of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Mrs. John Eyre Sloane of Llewellyn Park, N. J.; and Theodore M. Edison. 35, research chief in his father's interests. Closest to the great inventor, both in life and in business, were the two youngest sons. To them is willed in equal shares the capital stock of Thomas A. Edison...
Remington Arms Co., Inc., older than Winchester by nearly half a century, always its peer. The first Remington rifle was made by Eliphalet Remington in 1816. He died in 1861, weakened by the strain of upping production for the Civil War (then famed gun: the Harper's Ferry musket). His three sons Philo, Samuel and Eliphalet Jr., carried on, but 23 years after the Civil War Marcellus Hartley bought control of the company, and his grandson Marcellus Hartley Dodge is now its chairman. Remington first developed the hammerless, solid-breech, repeating shotgun and the hammerless unloading shotgun, introduced the paper...
Kresge to Kresge. The Kresge Department Store in Newark has long been a big loser for Kresge Department Stores Inc., which shares its ownership with Sebastian Spering Kresge. Last week Storeman Kresge bought the remaining half interest in the Newark store from the department store company for $2,000,000 and assumption of certain liabilities, stated he still had faith in his original judgment but was "not insensible" to the opinion of other shareholders that it should be sold. Kresge Department Stores, Inc. also owns the Palais Royal in Washington, D. C., has a large interest in The Fair, Chicago...