Word: inc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, taciturn, tweedy Sir George Ernest Schuster, chairman of the board of Lipton, Ltd., received newshawks in his suite at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and imparted to them a bit of last-minute information. Last February, said Sir George, he had become president of Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., when the stock of that U. S. company had been wholly acquired by his English corporation. Why his election had not been announced before he did not explain, observed vaguely: "There never has been a time when the strengthening of economic ties between the United States and the United Kingdom...
Next day Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission a registration statement for 52,000 shares of new $25 par 6% cumulative preferred stock and 200,000 shares of $1 par Class A common stock, which represented the second and final recapitalization made by Lipton, Ltd. since February. With SEC's permission. Hallgarten & Co., Manhattan underwriters, will exercise options on 26,000 shares of preferred and 100,000 shares of Class A common and resell it to the U. S. public. The rest, together with 200,000 shares of Class B common equal in voting rights...
...never went into the retail business in the U. S. as he did in England. His genial, perennial challenges for the America's Cup (in 1899, 1901, 1903. 1914, 1920, 1930), most remarkable advertising feats of a born salesman's career helped to make Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. the biggest tea-packing company in the U. S. Only Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. can compare with it in volume of tea distributed. All the Lipton tea sold in the U. S. is blended and packaged in either Hoboken or San Francisco...
...South Chicago Avenue, ten miles from Chicago's swank Loop shopping district, stands a big, three-story brick building that used to be a bag factory. Today it houses a typical supermarket, Depression's great contribution to U. S. retailing. This supermarket, Trading Post, Inc., was founded in 1934 by Roy O. Dawson with the backing of the Bristol brothers, Lee, Henry and William (of Bristol-Myers...
Hired by Lennen & Mitchell to do the job for Lorillard was a firm called Publishers Service Co., Inc., previously employed by Publisher Julius David Stern to cook up rebus contests for his Philadelphia Record and New York Post. In the Post building on Manhattan's West Street, Publishers Service has barnlike offices furnished principally with a good set of dictionaries. Genius of the place is lanky, sandy-haired Frederick Gregory Hartswick, a Yale high-jumper of the class of 1914 who made puzzles a profession, ran the puzzle page on the old New York World and has been getting...