Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solid gold dinner service of the Royal Family, worth $16,000,000, will be used at the State Banquet. As always happens, at least one guest too exalted to be nabbed in the act will get away with a gold butter plate worth $500. Next evening the British Foreign Office is dinner host to the King & Queen-biggest night of Foreign Secretary & Mrs. Anthony Eden's lives, although Foreign Undersecretary Viscount Cranborne, a Cecil, and his Viscountess are often house guests of Their Majesties. Next day, May 15, the Envoys of 53 States depart and on this day train...
...launched at the Century's turn by the gaudiest crew of bigtime promoters in U. S. history, American Can Co. was very nearly a perfect monopoly. It had at the start, thanks to the tireless efforts of Judge William Moore, Daniel Gray ("Tsar") Reid and William Bateman ("Tin Plate") Leeds, over nine-tenths of the country's entire can business. But by the time the trustbusters of Roosevelt I got to work on it, American Can had already destroyed its virtual monopoly by its dizzying prices. Competitors had swarmed in under the "Tin Can Trust...
...guesses on U. S. can statistics but official sales figures have always been a dark secret. American Can got an injunction against SEC to prevent release of its old data but finally capitulated in its 1936 report, out last fortnight. Last week National Can, a subsidiary of McKeesport Tin Plate and No. 3 U. S. can maker, also revealed its sales. Though Continental's report still omitted the vital figures, it was now possible to fill in most of the hitherto sketchy can picture. Total can production amounted to some $375,000,000. American Can's share...
...Stockmarketeers as usual did not wait for annual reports to register their low opinion of can shares. From a Recovery high of $149 per share American Can by last week was down to $109. Continental was off from a 1936 high of $87 per share to $62, McKeesport Tin Plate from...
...storekeepers on his board of directors knew anything about insurance, but they "had one simple, brilliant idea. This was to pay 10% of the net profits to the charitable fund of the San Francisco Fire Department and to mark all buildings insured by the company with a metal "house plate." Since they had a financial interest in the company, firemen were expected to surpass themselves putting out fires in these buildings. Whether aided by this or not, the new company did so well in fiery San Francisco that two years later it decided to get along without the Fire Department...