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...tycoon of U. S. shipping. When he became president of I. M. M. in 1921 he was also a great tycoon of shipping but not of U. S. ships. Then I. M. M.'s big lines were White Star, Red Star, Leyland, and Atlantic Transport Ltd., all of which fly the British flag...
...other things than armaments, true enough; such unwarlike products as sewing machines and golf clubs come from its factories. But its chairman, General the Hon. Sir Herbert Lawrence, G. C. B., onetime Chief of Staff of the B. E. F., has put himself on record as saying. "Vickers-Armstrongs. Ltd., relies very largely on armament orders for its existence." The Vickers research staffs work constantly to bring into mass production such bolsters to international comfort as the Vickers-Garden-Lloyd Light Amphibious Tank, or the Vickers Vildebeest Bombing Machine...
Vickers directors are men of wide affairs. Sir Herbert Lawrence, besides being a director of the Bank of Rumania, is also a director of the Sun Insurance Office, Ltd., with which Vickers-Armstrongs had a curious agreement that "if the profits (of Vickers) in any year during the five years ending December 31, 1932, do not amount to $900,000, then a contribution not exceeding $200,000 will be made in each year." Sir Otto Niemeyer, the infant phenomenon of British finance who first entered His Majesty's Treasury at the age of twenty-three, is another Vickers director...
...office forever. This strange character, the greatest armament salesman the world has ever known, struck a major spark in the world when he collided with an American of somewhat similar interests. Zaharoff at that time was a salesman for the Nordenfeldt Guns & Ammunition Co., Ltd., of England and had done very well in profits out of the perpetual dogfights in the Balkans and the Near East, to which he was puryeyor and of which he was frequently (it was an easy trick once he learned it) instigator. The American that gladdened his heart was Hiram Maxim, whose new machine...
Because Actress Ethel Barrymore was not in to a process server who called at her Mamaroneck, N. Y. home three times a day for seven days, Hill Brothers, Ltd., London clothiers, obtained a court order to nail to her door a summons to their ?86 suit on an unpaid bill...