Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Graybar. A. T. & T. owns the Western Electric Co., which owns the Graybar Electric Co., which is the world's largest ($75,000,000 business in 1928) distributor of electrical supplies (telephone apparatus, train despatching equipment, cables, loud speakers). A. T. & T. has long been focusing its subsidiaries on strictly telephonic affairs. In 1925, it sold Western Electric's foreign supply business to I. T. & T. Last week, it announced the offer of Graybar's entire $3,000,000 common voting stock to its 2,500 employes and officers, as the Graybar Management Corp...
...increasing its outstanding stock from 100,000 shares ($100 par) to 800,000 shares (no par) is giving its shareholders the equivalent of a 700% stock dividend. Besides, it is selling them $5,000,000 stock in its two main subsidiaries?E. W. Gillett Ltd., Canadian maker and distributor of baking powder and allied products, and American Maize Products Co., maker and distributor of corn starch and corn byproducts...
...Howard--Boston's leading theatre. Official distributor to the United States navy...
...Sapiro's function was somewhat difficult to define. Most of the owners of small cinemansions are Jews and they supposed that, if they banded themselves together, Mr. Sapiro would be able to champion their interests and thwart the all too often oppressive business tactics of the great producer-distributor-exhibitor companies, as Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Fox, Loew.-Unfortunately, looking at the membership of his new cooperative, last week, Aaron Sapiro found neither guts nor loyalty. Accordingly he said: "This is a beaten organization today." He explained...
...president of the Toyo Muslin Co. (10,000 employes), of Bagnall & Hilles Co. Ltd. (distributor of General Electric Products in Japan), of the Tokyo Commercial Bank, of the Mitsubiki Company (importers of sugar, rubber, iron, steel), of a dozen lesser concerns...