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...still has the benefit of a large, roving x quantity in bluff, pushing Francis William Rickett, the British promoter who wangled a huge concession from Haile Selassie for Standard Vacuum Oil and then, to an international chorus of "Shame! Shame!" was paid off and repudiated by the U. S. concern (TIME, Sept. 9 et seq.). Dressy Mr. Rickett's importance survived last autumn's misadventure because his safe continued to be the repository for the concession for the subsoil rights to precisely the two-thirds of Ethiopia that Benito Mussolini wants. The contract gives Rickett five years...
...Doubleday's surprise, his own circulation manager, William Herbert ("Doc") Eaton stepped up with a scheme to lease the two big losers, share profits with the parent concern if & when profits should appear. On money borrowed from West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., Mr. Eaton then took over the magazines, carried them from Doubleday, Doran's Garden City, N. Y. printing house to Manhattan. With him went Adman Henry Jones and Country Life's socialite editor, Reginald Townsend Townsend...
Original it is. It is daring only by contrast with Hollywood's timid preference for doing, insofar as possible, only what has been done before. Actually, nothing interests people more than matters which do not concern them. Things to Come is therefore magnificent entertainment and a tribute to the sound showmanship that has made Producer Korda the kingpin in England's booming cinema industry...
Flintkote to Lehman. Among the far-flung assets of Sir Henri Deterding's Royal Dutch-Shell group of oil properties is an old-line U. S. building concern, Flintkote Co., makers of asbestos and asphalt shingles and roofing, building paper and other asphalt products. Sir Henri picked it up in 1928 for $8,700,000 cash, receiving the entire issue of Class B stock, which carries the right to elect a majority of Flintkote directors. The Class A stock is traded on the New York Curb Exchange, selling last week for $48 per share as against...
...most people Pratt & Whitney is a builder of airplane engines. Fact is, Pratt & Whitney's big Hartford, Conn, plants make no engines at all. The company is one of the leading U. S. manufacturers of precision machine tools and manufacturing instruments.* Moreover, Pratt & Whitney is not an independent concern but the principal asset of Niles-Bement-Pond Co. Last week Niles-Bement-Pond's principal asset was an island in flood waters, but that dampened not a whit the desire of Chairman Edward A. Deeds for a machinery merger. Expansive Chairman Deeds, who is also chairman of National...