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Great railroad, tobacco, rubber, sulphur and mining companies have been the products of his organizing genius. In 1916, as everyone knows, President Wilson appointed him as an advisory commissioner of the Council of National Defense. Because Mr. Baruch had contributed largely to Democratic campaign funds, the appointment was considered a complimentary one. But it soon became apparent that the Baruch genius could apply itself as well to public as to private affairs, and there was only applause when in 1918 President Wilson chose Mr. Baruch for chairman of the almost omnipotent War Industries Board, charged with controlling and purchasing...
Concluded the good Bishop with ardor: "The greatest single rubber operator in the world is a Chinese named Tan Kah-kee with headquarters in Singapore...
Manhattan rubbermen recalled that rubber tycoon Tan Kah-kee is a slender, old fashioned Chinaman some five feet two inches tall and about fifty years of age. He founded his rubber business in 1910 at Singapore, and now enjoys a. fabulous income which enables him to live luxuriously at Amoy, on the coast of Southern China. Uneducated in the western sense, and speaking only Chinese & Malayan, he has a passion for educational philanthropies and makes up each year the large deficit of a university which he founded at Amoy. He has several times visited Europe but professes an unalterable resolve...
...National Cash Register, Goodyear Tire & Rubber and Dodge Bros, re-organizings...
...unit of trading on the Rubber Exchange...