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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just selling planes was not enough for Errett Cord. He organized Century Air Lines, Inc. and Century Pacific Air Lines Ltd.. equipped them with Stinsons, operated between St. Louis, Chicago and Cleveland and in the West at rates directly in competition with the railroads and well under competing airlines...
Automobile manufacturers often wish that they could attract the patriotic fervor to their products that shipbuilders and steamship operators do to theirs. If, for example, British Austin Motor Co.. Ltd. should be forced to suspend "Baby Austin" production the average Briton would not feel called upon to do anything about it. But last month when Cunard Line felt it necessary to stop work on its 73,000-ton No. 534, British patriots reacted as to a national calamity. Retired colonels, war widows and schoolboys sent in small sums to Cunard Line; the Government was put under pressure to offer...
...United's engineers showed no signs of abandoning the project, President Vincente Mejia Colindres said that Honduran honor and sovereignty had been violated, that force would be used if necessary. Beech-Nut Packing Co. (bacon, coffee, candy, chewing gum) last week sold its subsidiary Beech-Nut Co. of Canada, Ltd. to Life Savers, Inc., owned by Drug, Inc. Chief item in the sale was Beech-Nut's plant at Hamilton, Ont. equipped for making gum & candy. Hitz Hotels. In receivership is Detroit's smart, big (1,200 rooms) Book-Cadillac Hotel. Last week, however, a new destiny for the hotel...
This new department, which is modeled after the Harvard Business School to some extent, was opened at the suggestion of and with the financial support of several important English companies including Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., British Xylonite Company, Standard Telephone, Harrod's, Selfridge and Company, Ltd., and Lewis's. At the request of those concerned in the direction of the new venture, Professor McNair was granted leave of absence for the first half of the current academic year in order to assist in its establishment. In addition to giving a course in Retail Distribution during the Michaelmas term...
...suit to Magnavox Co., and last year William Carl Grunow was ousted from the presidency by his partner Bertram James Grigsby. Last week unGrunowed Grigsby-Grunow, undaunted, planned to expand, acquire Columbia Phonograph Co. by an exchange of stock. Columbia owns the U. S. properties of Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd. which was merged with Gramophone Co. Ltd. in April to form Electric & Musical Industries, Ltd. Columbia's properties, which will pass to Grigsby-Grunow, include U. S. factories where are made Columbia phonographs and records, and patent & trade mark rights to Columbia's name in North & South America. The combined...