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Stepchild's Father. No shrinking violet by nature, "Nate" Twining had nevertheless long been one of the comparative unknowns of the air wars until he turned up in the B-29 spotlight. With some reason, he and the men of his old Fifteenth, overshadowed in the news by the Britain-based Eighth (now on the way to the Pacific), had called themselves "The Forgotten Air Force...
...Monday luncheon at plush Perino's, the Association of Motion Picture Producers sent in the first team-M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer, Goldwyn's Sam Goldwyn, Paramount's Henry Ginsberg, RKO's Charles Koerner, Universal's Nate Blumberg, Columbia's Irving Briskin, Fox's Lew Schrieber and Joe Schenck, everybody's Will Hays. Rank talked easily, but not about his plans. He liked the fried chicken...
...last week Nate Cummings sat in a new walnut-paneled office backed by a carved lion's head on the wall-the trademark of Reid, Murdoch's "Monarch" brand, which he now owns, along with the "Yacht Club" and Sprague, Warner's "Richelieu" and "None-Such...
...very real sense Nate Cummings owns them, for although Commercial Credit Co. and various banks have financed some of his deals, he does not favor spreading his stock control around. His formula is to buy old, established companies, sweep out the cobwebs and make them pay by efficient merchandising...
...Nate Cummings plans his new Consolidated Grocers Corp. to be the General Motors of the grocery business, i.e., like Buick and Chevrolet, Reid, Murdoch would compete with Sprague, Warner for sales. Consolidated's various divisions include canners. manufacturers, importers, exporters and distributors of foods-its different branches maintaining their sales autonomy. And with his new consolidation, about twice the size of any comparable wholesale grocery firm five years ago, he plans to buck the chain stores still further by giving his customers merchandising and sales help...