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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...view. While the battle of Fords and Chevrolets begins again at home, Ford has flung down a challenge for European markets as well. Sir Percival Perry, English Ford generalissimo, opened hostilities when he offered especially to English investors shares of the $34,020,000 Ford Motor Co., Ltd. Similar offerings are being made by Ford companies on the Continent. But Great Britain & Ireland are now Ford's key sectors; his Manchester, Cork and Dagenham (capacity 200,000 cars annually; unfinished) plants are the most important overseas units; and Ford Motor Co., Ltd., is the greatest of the associated companies...
...odious "subcommittee" ghost had been pretty well laid, it was revealed that for almost a week previously John Pierpont Morgan had been sitting in on an informal group chairmanned by Baron Revelstoke, the softspoken, intensely aristocratic tycoon who heads the great British banking firm of Baring Brothers & Co., Ltd...
Underground (British Instructional Films, Ltd.) was written and directed by Anthony Asquith, 26, member of an English family which has already done much to entertain the U. S.* Few Asquiths, however, have used their wits as seriously as young Anthony in his account of a London subway guard who falls in love with what Britishers call a shopgirl. A plot, somewhat too complicated for strong drama, includes a rival lover who burns another girl to death against a high-tension switch, and a young wife who (married at last to her subway guard) rides around on the Underground just...
Although it has been denied that Ford of France will be a subsidiary of Ford of England, the fact remains that Ford Motor Co., Ltd., of England, was given charter rights to market Fords throughout Europe (except in Soviet Russia), in Asia Minor and in certain parts of Africa. Ford companies were to be acquired in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Sweden and Finland, and unsuccessful attempts were made to secure a concession from the Soviet government (TIME, March 4). Ford of England was to hold 60% of the stocks of European Ford companies; the other...
Mansanto Chemical Works, Ltd., (Carbolic acid to kill. Aspirin to cure) net, $944,438. Previous year...