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...coated, silk-trousered members of the Shanghai Gold Stock Exchange on Kiukiang Road bought silver by the simple method of selling gold. How desperate is China's state is well illustrated by the ugly rumors heard in Singapore concerning the affairs of Tan Kah Kee, great rubber, pineapple, biscuit and brick tycoon, patron of Amoy University. Once a coolie, he became a multimillionaire, is now thought to be heavily in debt, frantically trying to incorporate his private affairs...
...most important Baker holdings include: 87,000 shares of United States Steel, 74,000 shares of American Telephone & Tele- graph, 204,000 shares of New York Central, 6,100 Pullman, 713,000 Delaware, Lackawanna and Western. Other "Bakerstocks" include American Can and National Biscuit. He has been friendly with the Van Sweringens...
...General Electric 15,042 11,488 General Foods 5,990 5,572 General Motors 44,968 28,999 Gillette 2,164 1,421 Hudson Motor Car 2,316 226 Hupp Motor Car 66 680 D McGraw-Hill Publishing 534 372 Montgomery Ward 2,318 D 1,783 D National Biscuit 4,665 4,840 National Cash Register 912 373 D Otis Steel 634 20 Packard Motor Car 2,654 113 du Pont 17,347 12,656 Studebaker 1,343 809 Texas Gulf Sulphur 3,803 2,448 Westinghouse Electric 4,546 2,885D White Rock 257 2,885D
...human consumption to France, Holland, Italy, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Most of the raw material was wild range horses raised on 15 Chappel-owned ranches, which total 1,500,000 acres, in Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming. Chappel products are several? puppy ration, kitty ration, kennel biscuit, pheasant meal, and leather specialties, besides food for grown dogs and foreigners? but P. M. Chappel has never attempted to sell horse meat as food for U. S. humans...
Lord Biskerton, known to his pals as the Biscuit, was son & heir (ah empty title) to the sixth Earl of Hoddesdon. He had red hair, a just discernible mustache, and a determination to die rather than go to work. Biscuit's old school friend Berry Conway, a mere commoner, had faced the facts and taken a job as secretary to Lon don-living U. S. Tycoon T. Paterson Frisby. Frisby talked in barks, luckily be came incoherent when dyspepsia and human folly reduced him to one of his frequent tantrums. Both Biscuit and Berry, dissatisfied with their lot, felt...