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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austin Seven, Mr. Ford is selling a 15.9-h. p. car in Britain for £185. But if the buyer will take this British Ford with a 24-h. p. engine, he can have the higher powered vehicle for £5 less. By such tempting bait Ford Motor Co., Ltd. hope to lure Britons into buying full-sized cars, paying the "excessive" yearly tax, agitating for its repeal...
Biggest Tycoons: Solomon ("Solly") Barnato Joel and brother, Jack. Solomon is lord of the world's diamond industry, chairman of Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co. Ltd., potent South African holding company whose shares are known in London as "Johnnies...
...Dividend. Although British financial realms have been inundated with such bearish items as last week's dividend omission by United Molasses Co. Ltd., long a British bluechip, one bright announcement shone forth last week. Austin Co. (automobiles) declared a 60% dividend. Last year Austin paid 20% payment after having paid nothing since 1918. It has no connection with American Austin except in the considerable personal holdings of Sir Herbert Austin...
Index to the probable disintegration was the resignation, as chairman of the Insti-ute, of Colonel John H. Price, president of Price Brothers & Co., Ltd., large producers of newsprint. Said he: "I have become convinced that the expressed purposes of the Institute and my efforts to accomplish them have been and are defeated by the unwillingness of members to conform to either the spirit or the terms of their mem- bership agreement...
...thick of any price war, declared that Price Bros, "now intends to adopt immediately whatever independence of policy and action it may be compelled to follow in order to protect its position and the interest of its stock-holders." Ernest Rossiter, president of St. Lawrence Corporation Ltd., gave simi- lar notice to the Institute. Meanwhile Quebec's Premier Louis Alexandre Tasch-ereau, who with Premier George Howard Ferguson of Ontario had much to do with the formation of the Institute (when they were trying to up the price to $60 per ton) declared himself "completely in the dark...