Last week might well have been called national merger week. Three projects of the first magnitude were set in motion, involving nearly half a billion dollars.
Food Products. Close on the heels of Baker William B. Ward, who last fortnight incorporated a two-billion-dollar bakery company (TIME, Feb. 8), a group of Manhattan capitalists and food merchants filed articles of incorporation in Baltimore for a $200,000,000 holding company called the National Food Products Corporation. Of two million shares of stock, 370,000 were to be offered to the public...
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