Since breaking into the mainstream in 2022, Asake has enjoyed commercial success and risen to superstar status whose music is contributing to Afrobeats' global exportation. In the recently published end-of-the-year charts by TurnTable Charts, Asake finished 2023 as the most-played artist across Nigerian radio stations in 2023. Asake garnered a whooping 8.4 billion impressions to top the list that included other music stars whose music defined the year. Read More...
Slim, soft-spoken Floyd Bostwick Odlum, who built Atlas Corp. from a $40,000 experiment in 1923 to a $121,336,779 investment trust ten years later, has one very special gift: an uncanny ability to sense ”special situations.” Last week Floyd Odlum released Atlas’ 1940 report, and with it a bagful of cats. His newest “special situation” was revealed to be Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc., 7% cumulative Class A stock. First reaction of many a Wall Streeter: “What does Odlum see in that? Read More...
Last week the employes of Welch Grape Juice Co. were given for Christmas 10% of the outstanding Welch common stock. The four Welch brothers made the gift from their personal holdings, in memory of their father, Dr. Charles Edgar Welch. Founder of the company, Dr. Welch was known up to his death in 1926 as an ardent prohibitionist. His discovery, with his father, of “the best process for producing an unfermented and non-intoxicating grape juice”* led him to abandon his Philadelphia dental practice and pull the teeth of the grape. Read More...
