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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swift & Co. (Gross sales over $1,000,000,000): $13,076,815 as against...
General Electric Co. (No stock interest in General Electric, Ltd. of Great Britain, but large holdings in the Associated Electric Industries, biggest British company in this field. Between these two English companies an eventual merger rumored): $448,802,519 (orders) as against...
...Simmons Co. (Dining, bed and living room furniture): $51,971,448 as against...
Commonwealth & Southern Corp. was organized in May 1929, representing the pooled interests of several large utility groups. Inspiration for its organization came largely from President Landon Ketchum Thorne and Senior Vice President Alfred Lee Loomis of Bonbright & Co., Manhattan bond house specializing in utilities. Other interests joining with the Bonbrights in the formation of Commonwealth & Southern included Electric Bond & Share, United Gas Improvement, Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Commonwealth & Southern acquired stock in many utility companies but especially control (more than 96%) of Commonwealth Power, Penn Ohio Edison and Southeastern Power & Light, all holding companies with many operating subsidiaries...
...come to the U. S. on the Mayflower, his maternal ancestors on the Mary and John, the first ship to enter Boston harbor. Mr. Cobb went to Boston Latin School, then to Phillips-Andover (class of 1891). He first worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, then with Grand Rapids Gas Co. He went to Manhattan in 1905, worked for Hodenpyl, Wallbridge & Co. and in 1911 helped organize Hodenpyl, Hardy, the successor firm. In 1928, when Hodenpyl. Hardy was acquired by Allied Power & Light, Mr. Cobb became Allied's chairman. He is also president of Commonwealth Power and Penn Ohio Edison...