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...week is "provisional and expected to run for two years"; 2) During this period specified Argentine purchase of £8,000,000 ($38,880,000) worth of British manufactured goods will be balanced by specified British purchases of Argentine foodstuffs and raw materials of an equal value; 3) Details of the agreement were withheld, pending a formal and joint announcement by both Governments, but it was meagerly stated without explanation that the Argentine products to be bought by Britain would be "purchased through the usual channels," and that the British goods to be bought by Argentina would be "chiefly...
...Argentine floating credit of £16,000,000 ($77,760.000) to facilitate the mutual buying and selling provided for in the main agreement. The usually well-informed La Prensa declared that the British Government would use its £8,000,000 ($38,880,000) purchases of Australian food and raw materials "to feed and clothe the British Army and Navy...
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 is $301,000,000; their shares have a market value...
...world. Not much better known was the late William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925). Yet he had an excellent claim to the title of World's Greatest Merchant and was certainly in the front rank of the World's Greatest Advertisers. It was also Lever Bros. search for raw materials that resulted in the first great industrial concession made by a nation to a manufacturer, and it was Lord Leverhulme who developed the Belgian Congo more successfully than it had been exploited under the vigorous but scarcely humanitarian methods of Belgium's Leopold...
...search for raw materials? particularly palm oil?that Lord Leverhulme became involved in the greatest of his enterprises?the development of the Belgian Congo. Situated in the least illuminated portions of darkest Africa, first explored by the famed Sir Henry Morton Stanley, the Belgian Congo consists of 900,000 square miles of tropical jungle, crossed by the Equator and watered by the Congo River. It was long-bearded, farsighted, savagely-flayed Leopold II of Belgium who first saw in the Congo district an opportunity for taking up the White Man's burden and the Black Man's resources. Leopold created...