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Another serious problem for the larger makers of industrial alcohol is the competition afforded their product by glycerin compounds for preventing frozen radiators. Glycerin is a by-product of soapmaking, and such large soapmakers as Lever Bros, and Procter & Gamble are strenuously seeking to market glycerin anti-freeze mixtures. The Commercial Solvents Co. and the United Carbide Co. also are perfecting competitive mixtures for the same purpose...
...cashier when they pay for a 30c purchase, "Oh, by the way, how much is this store worth?" . . . "About $16,000,000 a year." . . . "Here's my check. Wrap the place up. Ill take it home with me." Just this, with a little more formality, is what Gimbel Bros, (of New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee) did last week to the Kaufmann & Baer Co., one of the biggest department stores in Pittsburgh, whose business last year amounted to more than $16,000,000. After a conference in Philadelphia which ended at 4 o'clock in the morning, they signed...
...seventh floor. It employs 2,000 people. Within a few minutes' walk of the main building is a large new seven-story warehouse. On the roof of the main store is a radio broadcasting station, WCAE. This is the third national broadcasting station operated by Gimbel Bros., which already owns WGBS...
...cash was provided by indefatigable Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co., whose purchase and sale of the Dodge concern last spring aroused lively interest everywhere. How much cash it took to purchase the Graham Bros.' control was not stated...
...acquisition of the new truck subsidiary makes Dodge Bros., Inc., the third largest producer of motor cars in the U. S., ranking only after the Fords and General Motors. The production of the Graham concern for the first six months of 1925 amounted to 11,000 trucks- equal to its entire 1924 output. Ever since 1921 Graham Bros, have enjoyed an arrangement with Dodge whereby they used Dodge engines as standard equipment and marketed trucks exclusively through Dodge dealers. As a result, the task of integrating the truck concern into the Dodge organization has already been largely accomplished...