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Michelin, the historic French firm of pneumatic tire pioneers, is one of Citroën's largest creditors. With some 30,000,000 francs ($2,000,000) at stake, Michelin decided last week to gamble on the popularity of the new Citroën. Perhaps in another three months the Ford of France will be able to get on his feet. For that period Michelin agreed to guarantee the debts of Citroën, but on a hard condition. To make sure that the slick motorman plays no tricks, Michelin forced M. Citroën to admit into...
Scovill issued the bonds in 1930 to buy A. Schrader's Son. Inc. of Brooklyn (tire valves), and Kidder, Peabody bought them from onetime Schrader stockholders. Since the bonds were outstanding when the Securities Act was passed, they did not have to be registered. Founded in the second year of President Jefferson's first term (1801-05), Scovill is the epitome of all good things Yankee. It was started as a brass-button factory. Scovill buttons and Scovill notions were the best stock-in-trade of every 19th Century peddler from Bangor to the Yazoo Delta. Scovill made...
...fixtures, razors, surgical instruments, automobiles, oil burners, typewriters, umbrellas, overalls, suspenders, locomotives, bicycles. Its own line, beside buttons, includes pipes, rods, sheets, plumbing fixtures, electric motors, blow torches, bolts, screws, nuts, food-mixers, condenser tubes, soda fountain equipment, vacuum cleaners, divers' helmets, 80% of the world's tire valves, 55% of all U. S. pins...
Loew's Orpheum: "Outeast Lady"--Constance Bennett is getting a bit tire-some as the good bad lady who plays with fire until her pretty little fingers get burned. This latest film is not any different from other Bennett attempts and it falls somewhat flat...
...tried to stop the petty thefts of cattle, maize, poultry and automobile tires by fining her own native Kitosh servants two shillings pay for every unauthorized trespasser on her farm. Last June she missed some cowbells. That worried her. It seemed to her it might be the first move in a conspiracy between her servants and outsiders to steal her bell-less oxen. She sent her men out straightway, rounded up five Suk natives and had them flogged vigorously with a tire. When the tire broke, she herself brought up a leather razor strop and the last man was flogged...