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...companies seem to vie with one another in revealing as few facts as possible. They produce almost uniformly uninformative annual reports; the annual report of the Artois brewery, Belgium's biggest, consists of just six lines, which do not even tell what products the company handles. The huge Solvay chemicals trust refuses to give the exact number of its plants, and Munich's Löwenbräu holds back from publishing its annual output (24 million gal.). Others delay what figures they do publish: Switzerland's Frisia oil company has just got around to publishing...
Among the corporations which he serves as director and trustee are the American Metal Co. Ltd.; Solvay American Corporation; Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory; Cornell University; Association for the Aid of Crippled Children; State University of New York, and the North Country Community Hospital...
...Pauley concluded that present Japanese capacity could be heavily cut and still remain larger than it was before Japan attacked China in 1931. He recommended a reduction in steel production to 2,500,000 tons and complete elimination of ball-bearing manufacture. He thought some caustic acid plants, solvay soda ash plants, and coal-burning electric generators could be picked up and removed from Japan...
...Among them: John A. Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge; William B. Cogswell, founder of Solvay Process Co., (chemical...
What President Hotchkiss had read was the routine account of a transfer tax appraisal of the estate of Mrs. William B. Cogswell, widow of a rich Rensselaer alumnus who pioneered the Belgian Solvay chemical processes (soda products, coke) in the U. S., helped form giant Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. in 1920. Mr. Cogswell died in 1921, his wife last year in Manhattan. To her sisters, the middle-aged Misses Elizabeth and Florence Browning of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, the appraisal revealed that Mrs. Cogswell left a net estate of $4,266,548, plus two trust funds, each consisting...