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RISEN FROM THE RANKS CAREER OF SIR H. McGOWAN (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Ist January. Sir Harry McGowan, who was yesterday elected chaiiman, v and managing director of Imperial Chemical Industries, ’Ltd., in succession to the late Lord Melchctt, began life as an office boy in one of Nobel’s explosives factories, and earned 5s a week. Now he is controller of the world’s greatest chemical combine —a company with an authorised capital of £95,000,000. The big merger which resulted in the formation of the combine was negotiated by Sir Harry McGowan, as chairman of Nobels, and by Lord Melchett, who was then head of Brunner, Monels. Sir Harry McGowan, who was born at Glasgow fifty-six years ago, is interested directly in fourteen other companies, including the Midland Bank, of which lie is director, the General Motor Corporation of New York, the British Overseas Bank, and the Finance Company of Great Britain and America, Ltd. He is almost as well known in American financial quarters as in London.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 January 1931, Page 7
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169INSPIRING EXAMPLE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 January 1931, Page 7
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