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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Utilities. Two leading western utility companies will be joined when legal arrangements are completed for the control of Southern California Gas Corp. by Pacific Lighting Corp. Combined assets will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Aviation. Newly formed Aviation Corp. (TIME, March 18) is said to have obtained control of Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America and Fairchild Aviation Corp., two well-known manufacturing companies, and to hold a "substantial interest" in Universal Aviation Corp., important in the transportation field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...share. At 105,000 soda fountains U.S. citizens were saying "Give me a Coca-Cola." At 600,000 retail outlets the corrugated little Coca-Cola bottle was being dispensed. Thirsty wayfarers in the U. S. and in 75 foreign countries consumed Coca-Cola at the rate of more than two million gallons a year. Every day eight and a half million glasses of Coca-Cola are drained to their sugary dregs. Operating 13 syrup factories, the company is one of the largest single consumers of sugar in the world. Many a railroad, many a steel company makes less profit than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Atlanta's First | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...three years ago, wrote Asa G. Candler, composing his own funeral notice with blank dates that last week were filled in. Precise, meticulous, he also left instructions that he should be buried in full dress. He was 77; he died after two years of illness following the paralytic stroke from which he never recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Atlanta's First | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Married. Mary Meeker, Chicago socialite, daughter of Vice President Arthur Meeker of Armour & Co.; and Ambrose C. Cramer, architect, who was divorced two years ago on the ground of desertion by Mary Meeker's older sister, Grace; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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