Word: mond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bold barons of finance afloat on a huge white yacht. Big names: Sir Alfred Mond "Biggest British Chemist," Irénée du Pont, and many another. Germans the hosts. Secret talk about nitrates. The yacht steams down the blue Adriatic from Venice to Corfu and returns. Meanwhile banqueting to tempt Lucullus. Scuppers running with champagne. But always more and more earnest talk of nitrates. The whole junket an achievement in making pleasure implicit with business...
...half of one per cent of the British & North Irish issue was as weighty as Albert Henry Wiggin's deal the week before. Mr. Wiggin's Chase Securities Corp. formed the $10,000,000 Finance Company of great Britain and America Ltd. with Sir Alfred Moritz Mond's Imperial Chemical Industries (TIME, April 23). Both transactions enable U. S. capital to flow to England, and thence farther afield...
...Alfred Mond, chairman...
...Henry Mond, a director of Barclay's Bank...
...Alfred Mond...