Word: ince
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Magneto Co. of New York it was to be a subsidiary of his Robert Bosch Aktiengesellschaft. But in 1917 the U. S. company was seized as alien property, sold, reorganized as American Bosch Magneto Co. In 1921 Herr Bosch again invaded U. S. markets, forming Robert Bosch Magneto Co., Inc., of Long Island City. Quickly American Bosch Co. brought suit, charged they alone had right to the Bosch name, won a verdict that prevented Inventor Bosch from using his name on products marketed...
...Other companies seized under the Alien Property Act included: Bayer Aspirin, Botany Worsted Mills, Merck & Co., Gera Mills, Pabst Brewing Co., Locomotive Superheater Co., International Textiles, Inc...
...royalties, may have to pay some. Example: Warner Bros, purchased "Sonny Boy," published and written by De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, with lyric changes by Al Jolson. Estimated royalties were upward of $750,000, of which Warner Bros, received not a cent. Warner Bros, learned a lesson, purchased Witmarks Inc. for approximately $5,000,000.* Radio Corp. seemed last week to have learned that lesson too. A contracted composer for Leo Feist, Inc. is Mabel Wayne, composer of "Ramona," and considered the best Feist music writer. Confidently last week cinemen predicted that RKO Productions, Inc. would soon produce a sound movie...
During the summer, Cineman Fox, proud of the quick expansion that had brought his organization Loew's Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the Gaumont Theatres in England, decided to consolidate all his holdings into one In September the authorized Class A stock of Fox Film was increased from 900,000 to 4,900,000 shares, but the consolidation never took place. Last summer Mr. Fox, injured in an automobile accident (TIME, July 29), was away from his office for almost two months. When he recovered he scarcely had time to start his plan with an attempt to distribute...
John Edward Otterson, president of Electrical Research Products, Inc., a subsidiary of Western Electric, in turn a subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph, is the third member of the triumvirate. Twenty million dollars of sound equipment in the 1,200 Fox Theatres was installed by his company. In addition, Western Electric receives royalties on its patents used by Fox, is therefore concerned with the future business of the company...