Word: sefton
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Lord Thomson answered all these questions with confident negatives last week. Calmly, with no fanfare he entered the moored R-101 at Cardington at misty twilight. With him were other British air notables?Sir William Sefton Brancker, Air Vice-Marshal and Director of Civil Aviation; Wing Commander R. B. B. Colmore, Director of the R-101'S construction; Lieut.-Col. V. C. Richmond, designer; Major G. H. Scott, Commander of the R34 (first dirigible to cross the Atlantic); and 49 other passengers, officers, crew...
Killed. Brig.-General Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Baron Cardington, 55, Secretary of State for the British Air Ministry; Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation for the Air Ministry and its Director of Air Organization and Controller-General of Equipment during the War; Major George Herbert Scott, Commander of the R-34, first dirigible to fly the Atlantic ocean (July 1919); with 44 others in the R-101 disaster over France...
...printed an article in which a succession of circumstances, beginning with a gathering of members of the Paper Industry at the country home of Mr. George W. Gair, President of the Robert Gair Co., during July of last year and ending with the totally irrelevant acquirement of the Sefton Manufacturing Corp. by the Container Corp. of America, implied that these events indicated an eventual merger of the Robert Gair Co. with the Container Corp. of America. This forecast is the product of a willing imagination, which undeterred by facts, envisions a "U. S. Steel of paperboard companies" rising upon...
Container Corp. Robert Gair Co. is the leading folding-box maker. Container Corp. is dominant in containers, has boxboard mills with a capacity of 1,200 tons per day. Last week Container Corp. absorbed the $5,000,000 Sefton Mfg. Corp., whose products include folding-boxes. Through this deal Container Corp. became a complete unit in the industry, in a position to expand until it becomes "the U. S. Steel of Paperboard companies." Although many more mergers must take place before such a centralization can be effected, paperboard makers hope it will happen, believe that such is the desire...