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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a publisher thinks that the paper industry is passing along not legitimate costs but costs of bad management. Newsprint financing has always been optimistic to the point of exultation. Big Abitibi Power & Paper Co. Ltd. of Canada once had 21 issues of bonds, notes and purchase-money obligations and an immense number of preferred stock issues. Between 1928 and 1930 it bought five other paper companies and went into the power business seriously. It is now in receivership. Even International, which made $5,000,000 in 1936, had to recapitalize last year so its stockholders could be paid "some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Publishers' Pains | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...Little Harry Caddow, still the Wine Institute's secretary-manager, has a hard job getting his temperamental French, Italian, German, Swiss, Hungarian, Armenian and Scottish members to hang together. Biggest Institute wineries are Italian Swiss Colony with a storage capacity of about 13,000,000 gallons, Fruit Industries Ltd., a growers' co-operative with a storage capacity of 19,500,000 gallons, and Roma Wine Co., Inc. which is now expanding to 20,000,000 gallons. Last week his polyglot members had something to rejoice in together. They had just completed this year's crushing of grapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Vin Ordinaire | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...wondering whether you would be interested in copy of a letter written by the President of Muller & Phipps (China) Ltd. to the Muller & Phipps New York office under date of Sept. 29, which date, you may perhaps remember, was that of a very heavy attack on Shanghai by the Japanese forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Sales Promotion Department Muller & Phipps (Asia) Ltd. New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

This powerful force the legendary Geoffrey Dawson shares with Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor, principal stockholder in the Times Holding Company Ltd. which controls the profitable paper, and John Walter, fifth generation descendant of the Times's founder. Shareholder Astor of the English branch of the Astor family, bought the holdings of the late Viscount Northcliffe 15 years ago. To insure that no unworthy shall gain control of the Times, no transfer of common shares by a living holder to anyone except Owners Astor and Walter can be made without approval from an austere committee whose members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Times's Change | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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