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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called a "great desert entirely unfit for agriculture." Across it were laid the Oregon trail, the Mormon trail to Utah, the "Pony Express" route, the Union Pacific Railroad. The Diamond Jubilee celebrated not Nebraska's 75th year as a State, but its 75th as a political unit. In 1854, by the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill" it became a territory, was permitted to decide its slavery status by "squatter sovereignty" (vote of the settlers). It sent troops to the Union Army during the Civil War, in 1867 became a State...
Last April Editor & Publisher (newspaper trade weekly) said an A. P. franchise might be valued at $1.50 per unit of city population: i. e. in a city of 300,000 an A. P. franchise would be valued...
Otis Steel. In business 55 years, a practically self-contained unit. Automobile manufacturers largest customers...
...many ways the new holding company will resemble Standard Brands, which retains the identity of its units but profits through economy in distribution. Chief unit of Standard Brands was Fleish-mann Yeast Co. with a highly specialized, rapid system of distribution famed in fact and romance. Another was nationally sold Royal Baking Powder. To the new company Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. brings an international distribution system that embraces food stores, while the marketing systems of Hershey and Colgate include candy and drug stores. With this nucleus other companies can be added, swiftly expanded...
...Eaton "interests" is as doubtful as what companies Mr. Eaton intends to put in the long-discussed super-steel-merger. Mr. Eaton, working with William Gwinn Mather and Otis & Co., sponsors of Continental Shares, Inc., is supposed to control enough steel companies to enable him to form a single unit that will challenge Bethlehem's position as second biggest U. S. producer. Until plans for this consolidation are completed, it is probable Mr. Girdler will advise the Eaton group on technical matters and stock activity. Chief companies with which Mr. Eaton is identified include...