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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deep in the earth's crust along the Gulf of Mexico are huge knobs of pure salt. In the tortured strata around these salt domes are often found fabulous pools of petroleum and the world's richest sulphur deposits. Water heated under pressure to 330° is forced into sulphur wells. This melts the brimstone, which is then pumped out. Two companies control substantially the entire U. S. sulphur production and the price for years has been $18 per ton- no more, no less. The companies are Texas Sulphur, which accounts for two-thirds of the production...
...except in minuscule amounts. Old Wilhelm was not getting his German rents. His secretaries were commuting between Doom and the Reich, bringing out all the cash the law allowed at each trip. Still it was not enough. In fact, the man whom Germans used to think of as their richest countryman was hard up. A Kaiser no longer, he was still the head of a Royal House, responsible for the miniature court at Doom, the princelings and the horde of poor relations. The solution, old Wilhelm concluded, was to move to Germany to collect the rents and later, perhaps...
...atom exploded some five billion years ago: the Francqui Prize of 500.000 francs ($23,000) for scientific work of such importance as to boost Belgium's prestige. Donor of the award, second only to the Nobel Prize, is Emile Francqui, banker, one of Europe's dozen richest men. ¶Died. Hugh Cosgro Weir, 49, publisher, author; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A telegram to Carl Laemmle Sr. brought Mr. Weir a job writing scripts for Pearl White. Ruth Roland, et al. With Catherine McNelis he founded an advertising agency in 1928, later published and distributed through...
...Baptist Rockefellers, Catholic Bradys, Raskobs and Mackays, Episcopal Morgans, Bakers, Cochrans, Princes and Mathers. In Europe there are so many old cathedrals that a modern one is news. Last week Liverpool Cathedral was doubly news when it acquired a handsome benefaction from the Vesteys, one of Britain's richest families...
...Manhattan the year the Civil War ended he instinctively turned to brokerage and banking for a livelihood. George Fisher Baker got his inspiration from his Uncle John who spent his time lolling on a piazza. Uncle John, it seemed, lived on "interest money." And George F. Baker became the richest, most powerful and most taciturn commercial banker in U. S. history. No other large financial institution in the U. S. could show a record for consistent money-making to match that of the fabulous Baker bank - Manhattan's First National. In financial stature George F. Baker with his sideburns...