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...Colgate combined. Its profits last year footed up to £6,200,000?about $31,000,000. Lever's properties are so far flung that at the annual meeting last April the chairman had a map of the world on the wall behind him with Lever plants ?and plantations???picked out with tiny colored electric bulbs. When the chairman pushed one button, green lights showed the extent of Lever interests at the death of Lord Leverhulme. Red lights revealed subsequent additions. Finally all were flashed, showing 36 bulbs in Britain & Ireland, 21 on Continental Europe, 18 in Africa, eight...
...tropical tranquillity of Honolulu clerks and merchants has been rudely broken these past two weeks. Searchlights have staggered the dusky night; airplanes have hummed through the garish day. Tanks, tractors, guns have rattled through streets. Officers in motors, men on the march, tents on the outlying sugar and pineapple plantations???it has been war of very...
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