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Blumenthals. Famed among cocoa makers are the Hershey Chocolate Co., the Walter Baker Co. (Postum subsidiary) and the Blumenthal Bros. There are five Blumenthals, Joseph, Meyer, Aaron, M. I., and Jacob; but Joseph, the president, is more potent than his brethren. Last week he bustled busily over the Exchange. He is a small, thin man (hardly five feet tall) with a brown suit which he has worn so consistently that it is indelibly associated with him. Of German descent, he is an Orthodox Jew, and rarely visits the Exchange on Saturdays except when there is a very threatening bear market...
...capitalization of $110,500,000. Prominent among its executives are Director Arthur W. Cutten and Board Chairman Elisha Walker, first partner of Blair & Co. (TIME, Dec. 10). Other famed directors are Halstead G. Freeman, president of Chase Securities, Charles Hayden, of Hayden, Stone & Co., E. F. Hutton, chairman of Postum Co., Inc. President is John H. Markham, Jr., head of the Exchange Bank of Tulsa, Okla., an independent oil opera tor. Petroleum Corp. will make its initial investments in Prairie Oil & Gas and Prairie Pipe Line?the two oil companies whose Rockefeller holdings (TIME, Dec. 10) were recently purchased...
Milk. Like the Postum Co. and Kroger Grocery & Baking Corp., the Borden Co. is constantly acquiring lesser and allied firms. Borden's latest acquisitions are Thompson's Malted Milk Co., Kennedy Dairy Co. and Clover Leaf Milk...
Scientists in some cases have been able to offset such monopolies by substitutes?nitrates from atmospheric nitrogen, rubber from carbohydrates, camphor from coal tar, coffee (Postum) from barley and wheats. There are no substitutes for potash or iodine. Yet chemists are already getting a little potash from the U. S. low-grade deposits along the Mexican border, iodine from seaweed and kelp...
Ambassador Houghton, Postum-tycoon Hutton, Pastor Cadman left on the Homeric; on the lle de France went the U. S. Secretary of State...