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...present Remington is the second biggest maker of cash registers but is negotiating to sell this business to National Cash Register, the biggest. It is the largest U. S. pocket cutlery maker. In September there were false reports that Remington would buy Winchester, that E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. would acquire a minority interest in the combination...
...Morgan partner was in organizing a syndicate of bankers to find gold to pay New York City's obligations maturing abroad at the beginning of the War. He is also credited with the organization of the Kennecott Copper Co. and in allying General Motors with the du Pont interests...
Helping to speed the Browns on their ascent are the Rockefeller, Rosenwald, Carnegie, Peabody, Slater, Jeanes, Phelps-Stokes, du Pont and Duke philanthropic foundations. Each foundation develops some function of the Browns' wellbeing. The Julius Rosenwald Foundation, for example, in co-operation with States and counties has established 5,000 primary schools for colored children, at least one in almost every county of 14 Southern States. Negroes gratefully call Mr. Rosenwald, whose mail order catalogs they used before they could use his textbooks, "Cap'n Julius...
...drove the first rivet (gold) and troweled the final stone. Also on the directorate is tall, aloof Lucius Boomer, 52, president of Waldorf-Astoria Corp. Mr. Boomer is an oldtime hotel man with wide experience. He was in charge of the McAlpin (Manhattan) when the late General Coleman du Pont asked him to take over the old Waldorf. He is a big factor in Sherry's and the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, also has a large interest in the Savarin chain of high-grade restaurants in Manhattan. The new Waldorf directors also include such celebrities as General William Wallace Atterbury...
...Charles Michael Schwab or a Pierre Samuel du Pont, you may have an organ of your own and a private organist all to yourself. If you are rich but less exacting, you still may have an organ but only a part-time organist to play on it. If you are of a whimsical turn and have ever pumped an oldtime church organ, you probably belong to The Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers (TIME, May 25). If you go to church you may know your parish organist. Many a person goes to cinemas partly to hear the tremolos and chime...