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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts concerning the munitions industries are already known. During the World War certain French firms were actually supplying Germany with armaments. Vickers, Ltd., the great English firm, recently admitted that one of its largest customers is Germany. American firms have a seemingly inexhaustible market in China, and the French are similarly indebted to Japan. No one is so foolish as to think that the war between Bolivia and Paraguay to being fought with South American armaments. It is difficult to see why the practice of selling munitions to countries hostile to one's own is act the highest treason...
...ROOSEVELT YEAR-Funk & Wagnalls ($2.75). †MEMORIES OF KUPEIKOW by Joseph Yu, M. I).-Liang Yon Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd., Shanghai ($1 gold...
Last week Vickers, Ltd., one of the greatest armament firms in the world, held its annual meeting in London. General the Hon. Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence, chairman of the board, cleared his throat, sipped a glass of water, and read his report...
...elected president in 1929 just before the lean Rolls' years began. Best Rolls' year was 1926 when the net profit was $524,000. Poorest was 1931. when its deficit reached $745,000. No dividend has ever been paid on the common stock (controlled by Rolls-Royce, Ltd. of England), whereas unpaid cumulative dividends on the preferred now total $78.75 per share. Last week there was no Brewster in Brewster & Co. to be proud of Mr. Inskip's new product. The founder died at the height of his fame as a carriage maker 19 years before Mr. Inskip...
...meat trade. When British retailers would not buy frozen meat 25 years ago, the Vesteys set up their own shops which now number some 4,000. When they could not get refrigerated space on ships from South America, they bought their own vessels, founded their own Blue Star Line, Ltd. Famed is Lady Vestey, born Evelyn Brodstone of Superior, Neb. Farm-bred, she became stenographer to Baron Vestey, later a $250,000-a-year executive ("highest-salaried woman in the world"), and in 1924 the second Lady Vestey...