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...resolution was released all over the world before its introduction in the Senate, Loud and polite were the exclamations elicited from foreign statesmen, especially in Europe. "This will make war impossible!" they cried. "Because, of course, the U. S. is the largest manufacturer of war munitions that there...
...giving the new company a capital of only about a quarter-billion. But Financial and Industrial Securities Corp., directed by Ralph Jonas, is connected with Manufacturers Trust Co., presided over by Nathan Jonas; and Manufacturers Trust, through a recent merger (TIME, Dec. 31), is Manhattan's fifth largest trust company, with $531,000,000 resources. The Jonas brothers also have holdings in. Home Insurance Co., another large product of recent merging...
Companies. Leading U. S. copper producers are Kennecott and Anaconda. The Kennecott corporation is the largest copper producing organization in the world,* though the mines owned by the original Kennecott company produce less than 8% of the present production of Kennecott and its subsidiaries and associates. The two large children of the small Kennecott parent are Utah Copper Co. (Guggenheim) and Braden Copper Mines Co., located in the Province of O'Higgins, Chile. In 1927 these companies produced 235.358 tons of copper, about 13½% of the world's total production. Other companies indirectly controlled produced an additional 179,636 tons...
Insurance. The Firemen's Insurance Co. of Newark, one of the world's largest fire and casualty insurance companies, last week consolidated with Commercial Casualty Insurance Co. of Newark, on a basis of ten shares of Firemen's for nine shares of Commercial Casualty. Capital of the merged companies will total...
...compilation of the 100 largest U. S. banks, the American Banker revealed that 30 are in Manhattan, 11 in Chicago; that total deposits of the list amount to $20,653,618,100. There are two U. S. banks (National City, Chase National, both in Manhattan) with deposits exceeding one billion. The Bank of the Manhattan Co., expanding by a succession of mergers, has risen from 24th place to 10th within one year...