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...Other names respected by Manhattan jute men are Christopher Smiles & Co., importers of jute and burlap. Hanson & Orth, hemp dealers, Czarnikow Rionda Co., biggest U. S. sugar baggers, Ralli Bros. of London, handling 50% of raw jute imported to the U. S., said at the moment to lead Yule in total business...
...corporations, from Argosino Electric Plant, Inc. to Yough Manor Mining Co. But there are not many men on the street who are directors of 29 well-known corporations. Such a financier is Waddill Catchings, potent Goldman Sachs partner, whose 29 directorates include B. F. Goodrich Co., Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Postum Co., Cluett, Peabody...
...Goods. In 1872 Lyman Bloomingdale, an assembler of hoop skirts, was left jobless by fashion changes. He opened a dry goods store, recorded net sales of $3.63 the first day. In 1928 Bloomingdale Bros. (Manhattan) reached the net sales total of $23,000,000. Last week it finally joined a long-planned department store merger which will consolidate it with Abraham & Straus (Brooklyn-Started in 1865 by Abraham Abraham, who was joined in 1893 by Isidor Straus, chinaware merchant), William Filene's Sons Co. (Boston-Headed by William E. Filene who unsuccessfully sought injunctions to prohibit large stockholders, including...
Died. Goliath, "only sea elephant in captivity," weight 3½ tons; at Chicago. Owner: Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus. Goliath will be mounted for the Field Museum...
...popular preference for acrobatics instead of music that started Mr. Ringling, youngest of seven Ringling Bros.* on his career as circus-man. Back in the late '70s, the brothers organized a concert troupe, discovered that the addition first of a contortionist, later of a trapeze act, materially increased box office business. Then came a menagerie in the shape of one hyena, to the laughter of which was later added the roar of a lion and the leaps of a kangaroo. It was not until he had been for several seasons a circus man that Mr. Ringling even saw an elephant...