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...spite of Paul Smith's innovations, his brass, and his feverish activity (he will take over any job on the paper, from managing editor to leg man), the morning Chronicle still has the smallest circulation in San Francisco (104,893), carries the largest staff (wags say that at fires there are more Chronicle reporters than firemen). Hearst's Examiner still dominates the morning field with a circulation of 163,003 built on the best local coverage in town. Of the afternoon papers, Hearst's Call-Bulletin is a shrill screamer, the Scripps-Howard News a tired liberal...
...Willie Woodin packed up his guitar and went to Washington to become Secretary of the Treasury of a brand New Deal. On leaving he turned over the presidency of his American Car & Foundry Co. (second largest U. S. railroad car maker) to a little white-haired lawyer, Charles J. Hardy, who had been the company's General Counsel. Charlie Hardy has been head of American Car & Foundry ever since...
...always been thought of as a "Morgan man," and is today the No. 1 U. S. utility magnate. Carlisle then ran and still runs the St. Regis Paper Co., which happened to own 4,070,000 shares of Niagara Hudson common. By an exchange of stock, United became the largest stockholder of Niagara Hudson and Mr. Carlisle's St. Regis Paper Co. became the largest stockholder in United-owning 2,170,666 shares (15%) against 1,670,000 shares owned by the Morgan-Bonbright interests...
...Largest pickle packer in the business is Heinz, with an estimated gross between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 a year. Heinz policy keeps it out of the trade association but it works closely with N. P. P. A. whose biggest members are Widlar Food Products (Standard Brands), Libby, Mc-Neill & Libby and Squire Dingee. Biggest pickle States today are Wisconsin and Michigan but the oldest is New York where Dutch burghers packed dills not many years after Henry Hudson debarked from the Half Moon...
Except for Philadelphia's Citizens & Southern Bank & Trust Co. (assets $739,383) all N. N. B. A. banks are in the South. Largest is the Mechanics & Farmers Bank of Durham, N. C. (assets $1,354,000). Oldest is the Citizens Savings Bank & Trust Co. of Nashville (assets $584,000), founded...