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Walter P. Chrysler, motor maker, offered to build two swimming pools, some bathhouses and a long pier on an eight-acre estate, once Actress Olga Petrova's, owned by him at Great Neck, L. I., and also to throw in $15,000 cash and trade the Petrova for a two-acre public beach adjoining his own home. Great Neck refused...
...Henry Ford, automobile maker, comes much publicity. Last week the following Ford items appeared in public prints...
...great margarine company and a great soap company. The margarine company was Margarine Unie, a Dutch concern which, with its British affiliate, Margarine Union, is Europe's largest margarine producer. The soap company was Lever Bros., which, with some 200 associated companies, is world's largest soap maker. Inasmuch as both Margarine Union and Lever Bros, control their sources of raw materials and also operate chain store systems through which their finished products reach the consumer, the merger represented one of the largest and most integrated of the world's provision trusts. Combined capital of the two companies...
...soap-seller. Manufacturers sent out soap-bars which whole- salers made into cakes and stamped with their own names. After some years in his father's business, William Lever decided that the possibilities of expansion were too limited, and, with his brother, James D'Arcy Lever, became a maker and seller of soap alone. He picked out "Sunlight" for his brand name and had it copyrighted throughout the world before he made a single...
Since Raskob's Rule came from a motor-maker, quidnuncs laughingly pointed to automobile stocks as they studied belated earnings reports for the first six months of 1929. Though many another stock was up to 20, 25 and even 30 times earnings, only three prominent motor stocks were selling at "15 times" or more. Many were below the ten times ratio even in the bull market of 1929. The following table shows recent prices of a number of representative automobile stocks and the price they would command at "15 times" according to first-six-months reports...