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...mammoth Bush Terminal, announced the completion of three years of negotiations in the formation of Bush Service, Inc., U. S. A. The new company combines the facilities of the Bush Terminal with those of Lassen & Co., a Swiss holding company that controls 54 distributing agencies throughout Europe. Fifty one percent of the stock of the new company is held by Bush Terminal. Inc. For the smaller exporter Bush Service Corp. will do, roughly, what is done for companies like International Harvester, General Motors, and Standard Oil of New Jersey by their own overseas selling and distributing organizations. Bush Service will...
...factories, railroad lines and terminals, a vast panorama of industry that unrolls itself over 20 acres of South Brooklyn waterfront. This industrial city has a daytime population of 35,000, its own police force, and its own courts for the settlement of internal disputes. It is the creation of one man, Builder Bush. "Dreamer" and "visioner" are two words sadly overworked in business biography, but they apply here. A broad and high forehead and a reflective cast of countenance give Irving T. Bush more the aspect of a philosopher than a successful businessman. After a preparatory school education at Hill...
Many a motion picture studio set after being used for one big picture is revamped for a lesser one. In London last week a new cinema company, World Studio Center, Ltd., announced it would use the same set not for many pictures, but for six versions of the original, each in a different language, each made by a different company. Through this cooperation of foreign producers, World Studio hopes to cut its costs 30%, successfully to fight U. S.-made films...
...however, was this sentiment expressed, for both last week and this week oil men were gathered in convention at Chicago's Stevens Hotel, where they discussed production, restricted production, overproduction and other topics conventional to oil conventions. They also discussed prospects of appointing some outstanding personage as Oil Tsar. One such personage, for example, would be Calvin Coolidge, onetime (1923-29) U. S. President, now occupationless...
...Henri had said to newsgatherers: "We will continue to sell and meet competition in the States or wherever it arises. We never have compromised and we never will. . . . We create no price wars but we are able to, and will, meet all price competition. Our companies fear no one, not even American competition, and there will be no compromise...