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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presence, is a good talker. He talked well last week, showed the committee that he had purchased most of his enormous holdings of Beauharnois stock outright. But he had difficulty in explaining a block of 80,000 shares received, with some cash, in a deal involving Sterling Industrial Corp. Ltd...
...OnIy Canadian ever confined to the Tower was R. C. Miller, no Government official but onetime president of Diamond Light & Heating Co. Ltd. He was condemned for contempt of Parliament...
Hollywood last week remarked with interest the formation of a new cinema producing company-Selznick-Milestone Pictures, Ltd. Director general of the new company was Lewis Milestone (The Racket, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Front Page). President was David 0. Selznick. At 28, David Selznick has sometimes been described as one of the bright young men in an industry full of dull ones. Reared in a household which was kept awake at night by new and erratic ideas about cinema, he has been full of ideas ever since. His idea when he resigned from Paramount where...
...always was Taiwan. This name was kept as the island's official title after Japan acquired it in 1895 by momentously drubbing old China with her new army. And when in 1919 the island's largest power companies merged the consolidation was called Taiwan Electric Power Co., Ltd...
...year. And with possible sites for stores all over the U. S. Mr. Woolworth might well have faced the future with a justified smugness. Yet in 1909 Mr. Woolworth, a devoted worshipper of Napoleon, showed brilliant commercial strategy by opening a store in Liverpool. F. W. Woolworth & Co., Ltd., as the British unit was called, grew until last year it operated 428 "3d to 6d Stores." During most of the past two decades the earnings of the parent company have been jumping far faster than those of the British unit. Since 1927, however, only the British earnings have kept Woolworth...