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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founder of the York Bible Class in 1925 was a rich, handsome (6 ft. 3) in., 215 Ib.) young man, Denton Massey, 31. grandson of the founder of Massey-Harris Co., Ltd., largest maker of farm implements in the British Empire. Graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Founder Massey is a kinetic, athletic Toronto socialite who worked in the shops and harvest fields of the family company before becoming an official in the Toronto factory. He is reputedly worth $1,000,000. A practical Christian, he is now a mild Socialist. Like Erdman ("Erd") Harris (also Toronto-born), Denton Massey...
Five years ago Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd. of Great Britain organized an affiliate in the U. S. Last week the U. S. company planned to sell its patent rights, also most of its assets, to Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. for L-O-F stock worth about $170,000 plus $25,000 cash to pay for liquidation, plus an unstated sum for some of the Triplex inventory. The large Triplex plant at Clifton, N. J., will be resold to Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. which will be given manufacturing licenses, will share Triplex's big Ford windshield contract with...
Three thousand British shipwrights, fitters, engineers and electricians laid by their tools and materials last week and sadly filed out of the shipyard of John Brown & Co., Ltd. Behind them they left the largest ship's hull that man has ever riveted together - Britannia's unfinished bid to rule the Atlantic mercantile wave again. As a handful of watchmen took up their duties under the deserted hulk, deepest gloom settled over Clydebank. Less than 30% of all Clyde shipworkers remained at work...
Sledgehammers clanged the knell of Britain's airship program in the great air dock at Cardington last week. The hammers, swung by workmen of Elton. Levy & Co. Ltd., buyers of scrapmetal, fell against the frames of the airship R-100 which flew from England to Canada and back last year, and has been in her shed ever since. Following the catastrophic crash of the R-101, the R-100 fell victim to an economy program. After all the metal has been flattened by steamrollers, some of it will be made into souvenirs for sale. British lighter-than-aircraft enthusiasts...
...copper industry calls an "informal basis," the customary dodge to get around the Sherman Act. But not only were conferences informal, they were just about over. Emile Francqui, chief of the Katangans, departed for home. A. Chester Beatty, chairman of Rhodesia's important Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd., said he was sailing Friday night; MM. Pisart & Gutt took passage on the Saturday sailing of the Ile de France. The conference looked like a failure. Then someone made a mysterious move and the foreigners stayed...