Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Khan left Christie's, amateurs asked: "Do the dealers think that the Diamond Trust is now dumping diamonds...
Piteous Plight. The answer came from Cape Town, South Africa, where there arrived last week from London three potent officials of the Diamond Trust: Lieutenant Colonel Solomon Barnato Joel, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer and Sir Abe Bailey. Proceeding to the Ministry of Mines and Industries these gentlemen figuratively rent their garments. Cried millionaire Solomon B. Joel piteously: "Diamonds will become as common as artificial pearls if the present unrestricted output from 'independent' alluvial diggings continues. . . . Something must be done to alter the present situation. Why, the alluvial diggers are now actually selling more diamonds than the great producers...
...slump of two-thirds in the usual pre-Christmas diamond trade. Alarmed, the great Fifth Avenue jewelers issued a joint statement: "The price of diamonds will continue upward, as it has for 30 years. . . . The interview quoted from South Africa was obviously inspired for political purposes. . . . The London Diamond Trust has itself bought up most of the independently mined diamonds, and will undoubtedly continue to keep prices...
...self-made" Canadian, he sought the power. Through adroit propaganda in England which reverberated in Canada he was appointed "Canadian Observer" in the theatre of World War. Thereafter his dynamic shrewdness as a commercial intrigant enabled him to break into the newspaper trust amid the War upheaval and established him upon his present eminence...
Builder-Architect Graham, under Designing Architect Daniel H. Burnham, built the Chicago World's Fair, when he was 20. He built that early century wonder, the Flatiron Building, and the new $31,000,000 Equitable Building in Manhattan; the Union Station on Capitol Hill at Washington, the Union Trust Building of Cleveland. He built all of Marshall Field's stores in Chicago, the Field Museum, the Railway Exchange, the Continental & Commercial Bank. He built the Selfridge stores in London. He put up the first Chicago skyscraper, for Gumman Wrigley, and the Straus skyscraper. During...