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Sixteen of the ships, with names familiar to pre-War ocean travelers, were in the million-dollar class. No. 1 on the list was the 16-year-old Vaterland (now the Leviathan of the U. S. Lines), for which Hamburg-American will be awarded $13,688,000.* U. S. Lines now own three ships for which North German Lloyd will be compensated as follows: George Washington $3,851,000, Amerika (now America) $2,979,000, President Grant (now Republic) $2,389,000. For its Grosser Kurfurst (now City of Los Angeles of the Los Angeles Steamship...
Cotton Corp. will link the co-operatives directly with the public market, will deal in futures when prices fall, will take over the holdings of the co-operatives to which the Farm Board has already advanced more than 50 million dollars from its revolving fund. Before the new crop comes in (after midsummer) the Board will assign to Cotton Corp. a market manager, a directorate, funds...
...acquired (for a rumored eight or ten million dollars) James S. Kirk & Co., manufacturers of Jap Rose soap, oldtime Procter & Gamble rival in the Chicago area, an ancient & honored Chicago industry which (until last week) was still controlled by the descendants of the original James S. Kirk who founded it in Utica, N. Y., in 1839, took it to Chicago two decades later...
Both Colyumist Brisbane and breezy, able John F. Sinclair of the New York World ignored the merger battle, focused upon the issue of whether any executive is worth a million a year. Said Mr. Brisbane, uncompromisingly: "A civilization that can afford to pay $250,000 a year salary for a few minutes talk on the radio can afford $1,000,000 for running a big steel concern." But Writer Sinclair quoted the late, great Nicholas F. Brady: "No employe of a well-run corporation can possibly be worth in salary over $100,000 a year...
Musical?FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN (TIME, Dec. 9), SIMPLE SIMON (TIME, March 3), STRIKE UP THE BAND (TIME, Jan. 27), SONS o' GUNS (TIME...