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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cocoa, Maxwell House Tea), as well as 34 other branded food products. From his fac tories and those of his 18 manufacturing subsidiaries, able President Colby M. Chester Jr. might select enough to sea son, sweeten and serve a nourishing poly-course dinner, in which only meat would be missing. For this deletion, meat-eating President Chester, son of a famed sea-admiral, might find satisfaction in the fishy products of the recently acquired General Sea Foods, Inc., of Gloucester. But the chief beneficiaries of General Foods Corp.'s expansion are Broker Edward F. ("Lucky Ed") Hutton...
Convinced of the advantages of group banking where the law prohibits branch banking, Mr. Rand acquired control of other institutions near Buffalo. For this purpose he formed the Marine Union Investors, Inc., then conceived of a super-holding company which would control banks throughout the country. Last week the super-holding company became an actuality. Banker Rand's Marine Union Investors, Inc., together with Stone & Webster and Blodget, Inc., White, Weld & Co., Schoellkopf, Hutton & Pomeroy, Inc., announced plans for the Marine Midland Corp., to be capitalized at approximately...
...rine Midland Corp.'s sponsors will make a public offering of stock to finance a $25,000,000 subsidiary bank to be known as the Marine Trust Co. of the City of New York and located in the financial district. While no announcement was made of how much stock would be sold to the public, trading in Marine Midland commenced on the New York Produce Exchange, the stock selling at more than 20 points over the rumored offering price of $60 per share...
...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...
...through the south and west, had seen countless small but growing towns and cities. Farsighted, he looked ahead, saw the school houses, water works, roads, bridges, sewage plants and other public works of the future. Shrewd, he saw also the billions of dollars in bond issues that these communities would need. "I did not tell even my brother my estimates," he once said, "for fear he would think I was out of my head...