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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon triumphant Whitney Warren was booming to reporters in his snug Manhattan office: "Most gratifying! Most! All over the world this decision will have an important effect upon the rights of artists, particularly architects. Heretofore clients have felt free to make such changes as they felt desirable in plans furnished them by architects. This decision seems to me to support the architect's claim to the right to impose his own interpretation of an architectural problem...
Coffee, Brazilian coffee, made U. S. businessmen hop and howl like Hottentots last week around Manhattan's big brass Coffee Ring. They hopped on each others toes. They hopped higher on camp stools. When they could neither hop high enough or howl loud enough to make a buyer or seller on the other side of the ring understand, they bent low and plunged for the round brass railing, elbowing each others stomachs, yelling "Seven-Jan-Santos!" or "Four-Dec-Rio!" Arms waved and fingers waggled. It was stark, raving business bedlam-the biggest, blackest, wildest day in years...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news...
...David A. Schulte is behind Vivaudou, Inc. Nothing that David A. Schulte touches ever freezes. The entire business history of David Schulte has been centered on making capital work faster by setting loose forces that make merchandise move faster." So read an advertisement in the July, 1928, Drug Topics. Signing the statement was Vivaudou President Thomas J. McHugh...
Continental Can Co., Inc. During the next 13 years the company prospered but only in 1926 did Continental Can begin absorbing smaller companies with the steady monotony of an expanding corporation. In the last three years the company has acquired 14 manufacturers scattered over the country. Some of these make tin plate (sheet iron plated with tin) from which cans are cut and rolled; some make machinery for making cans; most make cans. Out of the Continental can factories cans roll as prolifically as bottles pour from the Owens plants. Two-thirds of them are "packers' cans" (for fruit...