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...more than a year all U. S. talking films except Warner Bros, have been barred out of Germany. The reason: many German inventors and the producing companies backing them contest U. S. priority in patent rights on sound reproduction devices. Patent suits involving these devices are now pending in German and U. S. courts; to adjust the suits and settle differences has become necessary because both sides lose money fighting each other. Accordingly last week in Paris gathered delegates to an historic cinema conference. Present were representatives of the great U. S. and German concerns interested in talkie patents-John...
...Camp (pork & beans, catsup, spaghetti, evaporated milk, etc.; established 1861) passed its first quarter dividend on 7% preferred though business for the first two months of the year showed an increase over 1929. Jewel (tea, coffee, other staples; first twelve week sales $3,693,872; directorate mostly Lehman Bros, and Goldman Sachs) distributes its products direct to the consumer by means of more than 1,200 automobile routes in 40 states. Van Camp will issue $2,500,000 additional preferred...
...first of mass-distributed products. But although it is known that early civilizations were soap users, their soap tycoons are lost to memory. In present times the great and only soap tycoon was the late Lord Leverhulme (William Hesketh Lever, 1851-1925) who while he was developing Lever Bros. (Sunlight, Lux, Lifebuoy) also developed the Belgian Congo. Art lover, collector, philanthropist, Lord Leverhulme to the day of his death maintained that his was the largest soap company in the world. Today Procter & Gamble dispute the claim, which has never satisfactorily been settled. Earnings of Lever Bros. last year were approximately...
...industry, is credited to the Brothers Guggenheim. Of their two companies, the Anglo-Chilean Consolidated is the larger, its Maria Elena works alone having a 600,000-ton capacity. In the new holding company, some persons now see the Guggenheim interest dominant. Thus from the offices of Guggenheim Bros., at No. 120 Broadway, may come direction of the last battle to save Chile's nitrate industry. No one Guggenheim brother is likely to be sole field general in the battle. Seven sons had old Meyer Guggenheim, the founder of the house, and four still share one common office, sometimes...