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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earl of Bessborough is not so much interested in gold as in diamonds, railways and margarine. When appointed Governor General of the Dominion of Canada he was board chairman of Britain's gigantic Unilever Ltd. (margarine), chairman of Brazil's coffee-carrying San Paulo Railway, deputy chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines (South Africa), a director of some 30 other corporations. Thus His Excellency is a Big-Business Governor General. Last week he prepared to open for His Majesty in Ottawa a Big Business meeting, the Imperial Economic Conference...
...factories are being moved to Trenton, N. J., where it is expected that better labor conditions will also lower production costs. The raw tobacco will be cured, processed, stripped, blended and rolled in Havana, then shipped to Trenton under bond. Factories being moved include Havana Cigar & Tobacco Factories, Ltd., H. de Cabanas y Carbajal and others, all controlled by American Cigar's subsidiary Cuban Tobacco Co. Their brands, on which price reductions are likely, embrace: Corona, Bock, Henry Clay, Carolina, Villar, Manuel Garcia Alonso, La Meridiana...
Tycoon Alderdice is Managing Director of Colonial Cordage Co., Ltd. and on the boards of Imperial Tobacco Co., Ltd., Newfoundland Manufacturers' Mutual In surance Co.. Newfoundland Hotel Facilities, Ltd. and Newfoundland Motor Mutual Insurance Association. Returns showed that both Sir Richard and Lady Squires had lost their seats under an avalanche of votes that gave Mr. Alderdice control of 24 of the 26 seats in Newfoundland's House of Assembly. Though Squires did not resign last week his Cabinet was clearly doomed. During the campaign Mr. Alderdice talked of placing Newfoundland under a commission form of government...
This speech, which created a furor of excitement in the House, showed clearly that Baldwin of Baldwin's Ltd. (iron & steel) will go to Ottawa as the special champion of families which like his own have been leaders in British industry for generations. With the weapon of a tariff threat he will try to force the Dominions to abate their locally popular programs of fostering their own "infant industries...
Trusts. Consolidation in the investment trust field took another spurt last week. Tri-Continental Corp., sponsored by J. & W. Seligman & Co., bought control of Broad Street Management Corp. which carries with it control of Capital Administration Co., Ltd., an investment trust listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and a management contract with Broad Street Investment Co. The purchases swell the net assets controlled by Tri-Continental to over $40,000,000 by adding...