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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wind & String instruments in Chicago last week included a $1,000 accordion, a six-foot "bassoguitar" and cellos equipped with loudspeaker horns. Oldest & biggest band instrument maker is 62-year-old C. G. Conn, Ltd., which reports business currently running 35% ahead of a year ago, has 1,000 men at work in its Elkhart, Ind. plant. As with other makers in the same line, the saxophone is still Conn's biggest seller. Also in Elkhart is big Martin Band Instrument Co., whose founder walked there after being burned out in the Chicago fire...
...some $25,000,000 Mr. Odium sold back to British subjects their Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd., an aggregation of prosperous utility properties controlled by Promoter Harley Lyman Clarke's Utilities Power & Light Corp. Promoter Clarke had picked them up in the 1920's while he was pyramiding his $400,000,000 holding company. In the field of financial pyramiding Promoter Clarke was an architect with considerable imagination. He it was who piled his General Theatres Equipment, Inc. on top of Fox Film early in Depression, a heroic achievement which cost Chase National Bank many a million, sent...
...Tribune, Louisville Courier-Journal, Chicago News and Inter-Ocean, Washington Post, Providence Journal. In 1891 Mergenthaler Linotype Co. was formed with Philip Tell Dodge, Washington patent attorney, as its first president. Heading the present 18-acre Brooklyn plant of Mergenthaler and its affiliates - London's Linotype and Machinery, Ltd. and Berlin's Mergenthaler Setzmaschinen-Fabrik - are able President Joseph T. Mackey and Board Chairman Norman Dodge. Last week they signalized commercial Linotype's 50th milestone with a radio program dedicated to their best customers, the U. S. Press...
Died. Sir Lionel Phillips, 81, South African gold miner, longtime head of Rand Mines, Ltd.; in Capetown, Union of South Africa. In 1896 he and the late John Hays Hammond were condemned to death for complicity in the abortive Jameson Raid, freed after paying fines of $125,000 apiece...
Visiting the U. S. as usual for a week before the Derby was Sidney Freeman of the London bookmaking firm of Douglas Stuart, Ltd., to buy up Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes tickets that might win prizes. After the race was over, Broker Freeman cheerily announced that-unlike the last two trips, which resulted in substantial losses for his firm-his $750,000 purchases had brought '"Duggie" a handsome profit. Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes tickets cost $2.50 each. Of this, $1 goes into the Hospital Fund and operating expenses, the remainder into prizes. Twenty major prizes, a total...