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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month Colonel Josh landed in the U.S. He had every right to be there -for 90% of the business of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. (whose managing director is the Colonel's son Josiah) is done in Canada, the West Indies...
This belief of U.S. officials made a sad man, a man with cool heels, of an engineer named Alex Taub. A British-American, a Chevrolet man who went to work for Vauxhall Motors Ltd. (the General Motors in Britain), Mr. Taub returned to the U.S. last December with a mission and three specimens of a whang-dinging good British aircraft engine. The mission: to persuade the U.S. to manufacture the engines in quantity. The engine: Napier's 24-cylinder, 50-horsepower, inline, liquid-cooled Sabre (TIME...
VINCENT J. WHITE Pato Consolidated Gold Dredging, Ltd. Pato, Colombia...
Courtaulds, Ltd. lost Viscose when it needed it most. Last year when Viscose made $7,885,000, Courtaulds (which owned 96.1% of Viscose common stock) reported only a $6,160,000 profit. This meant that the parent company would have shown a loss of $1,725,000 had it not been for Viscose. But Courtaulds still has an interest in next week's stock sale. Besides making an outright payment of $36,456,000, the bankers promised the British Treasury to try to sell the company to the public within six months, split on a 90-10 basis...
...when potent Courtaulds, Ltd., British thread & textile makers, acquired an American subsidiary (then Genasco Silk Works) for $130,000, rayon was little more than an idea. The next year the subsidiary sold 308,000 pounds of its honey-colored product for a profit of $230,000. As costs went down (from $1.10 a pound to about 60(0?), the price went up (from $1.85 in 1911 to $10 during the war). In 1919 Viscose made over $25,000,000. Reason: it had a patent monopoly...