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...Manhattan, Bloomingdale Bros. proudly supervised the laying of a cornerstone for their new store. Enclosed in the cornerstone were: a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth; a roll of ticker-tape; a horseshoe; a pair of eyeglasses; some sheet music; a telephotograph of Charles A. Lindbergh and wife; a wedding ring; several hundred flower seeds; a copy of the Congressional Record; a subway strap; some newspapers; a forecast of the future by Florenz ("Follies") Ziegfeld...
...before he was discharged he won $300 in the company craps game and while spending it on Broadway met a cinema producer who gave him a $20 job in his cutting room. He became cutting room editor, then wrote some scenarios, got into directing. When he found that Warner Bros, who paid him $400 a week, were getting $1,000 when they lent him to other companies, he quit work and went through bankruptcy to settle the company's suit for $200,000 damages. Directing All Quiet on the Western Front he was knocked unconscious by a piece...
...door selling. Chief of his abilities was not selling, but buying. He soon opened stores in the centre of town, where his values could not escape notice. He acquired ten stores in as many years. Late in 1927 Mr. Kroger is supposed to have sold his holdings to Lehman Bros, for $40,000,000, and a short time later Mr. Albers became president. The following year was a big one for Mr. Kroger. In March he gave each of his six children $1,000,000, then married again. In July he was made an honorary lifetime member not only...
...anti-Fox factions in the late war) were to receive only 300,000 shares of three-year warrants of Film A at $35 a share-a banking profit notably smaller than the commissions formerly proposed by either Halsey, Stuart or the Bancamerica-Blair. Dillon, Read & Co., Lehman Bros, syndicate...
...Laughter Bros...