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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...missionary" at $15 a week, began to learn cigaret selling in the Ellis-McKitterick manner. Through the years and many a complicated corporate change the three stuck together. In 1931 Ellis and McKitterick emerged with working control of an inconspicuous 12-year-old firm named Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc., with annual sales of about $3,000,000. Last week Rube and Mac were not alive to see it, but Philip Morris was the No. 1 success story of a depression year. It had increased its sales 45%, its profits from $3,573,000 in fiscal...
Until last winter Britain's Imperial Airways, Ltd. and associated companies had bumbled along the farthest flung set of air routes in the world without evoking any more serious criticism than a collection of pointed smoking-room jests. There was a fanciful yarn about India's long-delayed independence; the guess was that it might be coming via Imperial. Spicier was a tall tale about a woman who gave birth during a flight to India. Politely taxed by a flight clerk for boarding the plane in her condition, she became highly indignant. "I'll have you know...
...screen is the work of Scophony Ltd., owners of a new process for projecting television pictures as though they were films. The method of freeing the picture from the limitations of the cathode tube is Scophony's secret, but they have a screen going into London's new Monseigneur News Theatre in Baker Street. Scophony's Director Solomon Sagall has promised full-sized cinema screen television for all theatres of England's Odeon Circuit by year's end. Test showings of Scophony projections have excited televisionists...
...Scophony is the lusty baby of British television. Guided by squat, bespectacled Russian-refugee Sagall, it weathered five years of bailiff dodging, grew from a room and a half in Soho to $1,050,000 capitalization, achieved financial association with Odeon. Competitor in large-screen television is Baird Television Ltd. partly owned by Gaumont-British Picture Corp., Ltd. They report several orders for theatre television screens, do not specify which theatres, might offer BBC loans of Gaumont-British stars in exchange for programs...
Where the case is likely to produce new angles is on the theme of aluminum imports. Walter Rice claims that Alcoa actually belongs to the European aluminum cartel through affiliation with a Canadian corporation named Aluminum Ltd. He maintains, that Alcoa allows a small flow of imports (6% in 1937) to disguise the absolute monopoly, that more imports are prevented by astute pressure abroad through Aluminum Ltd. Said Mr. Rice in court last week: "There never were interlocking directorates or officers of the two corporations. That would have been too open. But in 1928 the stockholders of the two companies...