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...trade. One of the oldest U. S. manufacturers of dry color (dye precipitate powdered and used for paint, printers' ink. rubber coatings) is Ansbacher Corp., formed in 1857. Powerful competitor is G. Siegle Corp. of America, segregated from G. Siegle Corp. of Germany during the War. Last week the two firms merged to form Ansbacher-Siegle Corp...
Leading Houses. Whence came the $4,231,847,000 total? Ultimately from U. S. pockets, of course, but more directly through financing houses. A financing house takes part in new financing in one of two ways-it either assumes the responsibility of floating the new issue or it participates in floating an issue which some other house has sponsored. In the second case, it is a participant in a syndicate, in the first case it is the syndicate head, except when it does not invite any participants but handles the entire job itself, Most houses are syndicate heads in some...
Harris, Forbes & Co. began in 1882 as N. W. Harris & Co. At that time Founder Norman Wait Harris had an office on Chicago's Clark St., three employes and $30,000. But he also had two ideas. First idea was to send salesmen out to sell bonds. In 1882 such procedure was regarded as undignified; Mr. Harris and his men were termed doorbell ringers. But Mr. Harris knew that he, small, new, obscure, would never prosper by waiting for investors to call upon him, so he rang the doorbells, sold the bonds, became ancestor of all bond salesmen since...
Died. Horse Colorado, 6, son of Phalaris; at Lancashire, England. He won the Newmarket Two Thousand Guineas, came third at the Derby (1926). Owner: Lord Derby...
...Two winters ago there arrived in the U. S. a Russian scientist, one Leon Sergeievitch Theremin (pronounced Termin), with an invention whereby he claimed music could be made with a wave of the hand. Had not strange tales of his "ether music" preceded him from Europe, doubtless few would have attended his demonstrations in Manhattan (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928). But many of the curious went. They saw a slender, tense person of some 30 years take his stand unaffectedly before an instrument resembling a radio set. Then he adjusted plugs and dials on the box (by which timbre was varied...