Word: makers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Ford, automobile maker, comes much publicity. Last week the following Ford items appeared in public prints...
...great margarine company and a great soap company. The margarine company was Margarine Unie, a Dutch concern which, with its British affiliate, Margarine Union, is Europe's largest margarine producer. The soap company was Lever Bros., which, with some 200 associated companies, is world's largest soap maker. Inasmuch as both Margarine Union and Lever Bros, control their sources of raw materials and also operate chain store systems through which their finished products reach the consumer, the merger represented one of the largest and most integrated of the world's provision trusts. Combined capital of the two companies...
...Power of Evil tells what happens when a family conceals the fact that its daughter has epilepsy so as to marry her to the richest young man in the village. It is subtly acted, well photographed, superbly directed. U. S. audiences, familiar with the works of Armenian mot-maker Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian) will find no traces of that young man's simpering suavity in this sombre, compact story. You see how the bridegroom's mother and sister plot to get rid of the girl, first by such witchcrafts as burying a crow in the garden, later...
Since Raskob's Rule came from a motor-maker, quidnuncs laughingly pointed to automobile stocks as they studied belated earnings reports for the first six months of 1929. Though many another stock was up to 20, 25 and even 30 times earnings, only three prominent motor stocks were selling at "15 times" or more. Many were below the ten times ratio even in the bull market of 1929. The following table shows recent prices of a number of representative automobile stocks and the price they would command at "15 times" according to first-six-months reports...
United Aircraft & Transport, by a stock trade, last week, acquired control of Standard Steel Propeller Co., West Homestead, Pa., maker of air propellers from aluminum alloy. United Aircraft was also organizing Northrup Aviation Corp. to take over the assets of John K. Northrup's Avian Corp., which is developing a new type of all-metal plane at Los Angeles. Recently United acquired Sikorsky Aviation Corp. (amphibians) and Stearman Aircraft Co. (commercial planes), is negotiating for Douglas Aircraft Co. (sport planes...