Word: alco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When a smart promoter raised the idea of This Week two years ago, he found Joseph Knapp ready and eager to back it. Since his first attempt, Mr. Knapp had built up Alco Gravure, Inc., biggest rotogravure printers in the U. S. He acquired high-speed color presses that could whip out four copies per second of a magazine the size of This Week. With difficulty, Mr. Knapp's salesmen sold the idea to the 21 newspapers. Then they stormed the advertisers, booked for the first year some $7,000,000 worth of business...
Back of the venture is Alco Gravure Inc., controlled by Joseph Palmer Knapp who heads Crowell Publishing Co. and whose father set up an insurance company out of which grew Metropolitan Life...
...birthday Chairman Samuel Matthews Vauclain of $83,000,000 Baldwin Locomotive Works joyfully announced : "We have just received an order for a locomotive from the Philippines. It amounts to $25,000." Last year no U. S. locomotive builder received an order except American Locomotive. That one was built in Alco's Montreal plant for a Brazilian cement company...
...months, yet the three companies can easily turn out a total of 2,000 locomotives yearly. In the past year the three companies-Baldwin Locomotive Works, American Locomotive Co., Lima Locomotive Works-received among them precisely one order for a new locomotive. It came from a Brazilian cement company. Alco got the order-and filled it at its Montreal plant...
Last week Alco's directors, for the first time in Alco's 31 years, passed the preferred dividend, the last dividend that was being paid by the country's three locomotive companies...