Word: sefton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...printed an article in which a succession of circumstances, beginning with a gathering of members of the Paper Industry at the country home of Mr. George W. Gair, President of the Robert Gair Co., during July of last year and ending with the totally irrelevant acquirement of the Sefton Manufacturing Corp. by the Container Corp. of America, implied that these events indicated an eventual merger of the Robert Gair Co. with the Container Corp. of America. This forecast is the product of a willing imagination, which undeterred by facts, envisions a "U. S. Steel of paperboard companies" rising upon...
Container Corp. Robert Gair Co. is the leading folding-box maker. Container Corp. is dominant in containers, has boxboard mills with a capacity of 1,200 tons per day. Last week Container Corp. absorbed the $5,000,000 Sefton Mfg. Corp., whose products include folding-boxes. Through this deal Container Corp. became a complete unit in the industry, in a position to expand until it becomes "the U. S. Steel of Paperboard companies." Although many more mergers must take place before such a centralization can be effected, paperboard makers hope it will happen, believe that such is the desire...