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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LIFE SAVERS, Inc. M. B. BATES Port Chester...
...Delaware and Hudson Co. (Leonor Fresnel Loree): $2,628,071 as against $2,429,024. Postum Co. (The Edward F. Button's): $7,426,630 as against $6,750,384. Canada Dry ("Champagne of Ginger Ales"): $1,449,191 as against $1,273,528. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Charles M. Schwab, Eugene G. Grace): $7,914,046 as against $10,666,718. E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. (smokeless powder, explosives, rayon, dyestuffs, paint, varnish, alcohol, pyralin, cinema film, ammonia, nitric acid and 23% of General Motors common stock) : $30,125,125 as against $21,436,642. Telautograph Corp...
...ivory box containing the first cake of soap made from Congo palm-oil extracted at Leverville. Uncle Leopold, whom no gift could dazzle, afterwards said that the presentation cake "stank cursedly and wouldn't lather," when he sought to use it "out of compliment to M. Lever...
...They knowingly misled French justice! The role of these Americans was blameworthy and reprehensible." Thus intoned M. le Juge Adolphe Wattine of the First Civil Tribunal of Paris, last week. He had just rebuked and suspended three French divorce lawyers-Maitres Moreau, Legrand and Prestal-and was now warming up to flay their U. S. divorce clients and especially those U.S. lawyers who act in Paris as inter-mediaires between would-be-divorcees and the French avocats who alone may argue cases before the Paris Bar. Roundly naming names, Judge Wattine mentioned Dudley Field Malone, onetime Collector of the Port...
...shipped seas over the stern the water raced down the scuppers. "When I turned in for the night the sky was covered with ominous black clouds. The sea seemed infinitely large, while our little boat had shrunk in size since we left New York. At 4:30 a. m. heavy squalls struck us unexpectedly with terrific force and the wind, with a velocity of forty to fifty miles, made us heel over so that the gauge registered 25 degrees. The lee rail was buried under two feet of water. "I was sleeping soundly at the time, but awoke suddenly...