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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today that it will continue its activities throughout the spring term, the Phi Beta Kappa tutoring bureau puts the capstone upon a career so notable for unselfish service as to be almost inexplicable to common men. For several years the members of the bureau have been quietly helping their less successful follows to pass their less successful follows to pass their mid-year examinations. The absence of any charge for this service places the work upon a plane of undiluted self-sacrifice, since the teaching experience is of such a specialized nature that it must seldom be of any future...
Last week another Brown became president of a company with which he has had less than two years' experience. He is Lewis H. Brown, who, at 35, heads Johns-Manville Corp. (roofing). Mr. Brown succeeds the late Theodore Merseles. Both Mr. Brown and Mr. Merseles came to Johns-Manville in August, 1927, Mr. Merseles as President and Mr. Brown as Assistant to the President. Both Mr. Merseles and Mr. Brown came to Johns-Manville from Montgomery Ward, and both made the change after the House of Morgan had become interested in Johns-Manville. Thus Mr. Brown was, in effect...
Forecast last November (TIME, Nov. 26), vigorously denied ever since, the sale of Germany's Opel Motor Works to General Motors last week became a fact. As in many a domestic merger, the emphasis given denials forecast a deal of large proportions. Thus, last week, no less than three presidents journeyed to Wiesbaden* to sign the contract. They were: the President of General Motors Corp. (Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.); the President of General Motors Export Co. (James David Mooney); the President of Fisher Bodies Corp. (Frederick J. Fisher), chief of the seven money-minting Fisher brothers...
...gross daily production up to about 105,000 barrels. They put into Producer Slick's pocket between $50,000 and $60,000 per day. Reports from Tulsa put the sale price at $40,000,000; but Prairie Chairman-of-the-Board W. S. Fitzpatrick said it was less, while refusing to give actual figures...
...than two million gallons a year. Every day eight and a half million glasses of Coca-Cola are drained to their sugary dregs. Operating 13 syrup factories, the company is one of the largest single consumers of sugar in the world. Many a railroad, many a steel company makes less profit than proceeds from this 5?drink...