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Sosthenes Behn (January 30, 1884 – June 6, 1957) was an American businessman, and the founder of ITT. He held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. Biography. Early years. Sosthenes Behn was born in the island of St. Thomas, then part of the Danish West Indies.
Learn about Sosthenes Behn, the co-founder and leader of International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) from 1933 to 1956. He devised a financial formula to survive the Depression and expanded ITT's global business and employment.
Behn, who had watched I. T. & T.'s profits climb in six years from $1,930,000 to $17,732,000, now saw them tumble to less than half that sum, and finally sink out of sight into the bog of a three-million-dollar deficit. Gone were the days when an excited public was eager to pay $149 for I. T. & T. stock earning $3 a share.
Sosthenes Behn (born Jan. 30, 1882, St. Thomas, Danish Virgin Islands—died June 6, 1957, New York City) was a telephone executive, president and founder, with his brother Hernand, of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (itt), one of the largest communications companies in the world.
24. Juni 1973 · Vor dem Krieg war Westrick mehrmals im New Yorker Plaza Hotel abgestiegen -- seine Hotelrechnungen hatte, wie das FBI später ermittelte, stets Sosthenes Behn bezahlt. 1938 wurde Westrick...
1. Juli 1973 · Sosthenes Behn versuchte, die Auslandsverluste durch Investitionen im sicheren Amerika auszugleichen. Erstmals verlegte er sich dabei im Heimatland der Firma auf Diversifikation: Er kaufte eine...
U.S. Business: Behn Marches On. 5 minute read. TIME. May 29, 1933 12:00 AM GMT-4. T he public had never heard of him and even among bankers and industrialists his name meant little when, suddenly...
