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Brothers Chemicals, Inc., while the metals business remained under the control of Ullmann (partner and president), Arturo Gruenebaum (partner), and Jesselson (partner, director, and treasurer). After the war, Philipp Brothers focused on acquiring leftover materials from the war which paid off handsomely when demand and pricing spiked during the Korean War. The company increased its staffing levels from 40 employees in 1945 to 200 employees in 1955. By the mid-1950s, Jesselson effectively took control of the firm as Ullman and Gruenebaum were getting on in age. In 1956, the firm took on minority partners which backfired when Gruenebaum died in 1958 and Jesselson and Ullman did not have the cash to buy out Gruenebaum's share. Fearing dilution of their control, they secured advice from
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distributors rather than end-users; Jesselson pushed for larger transactions and longer-term contracts dealing directly with the end-users. In 1939, he was given responsibility for a new venture, Filbro
Overseas Corporation, tasked with developing Philipp Brothers sale and export of metals and ores from South America and the Far East. The venture did not come to fruition due to the outbreak of
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in New York. In 1937, as the situation in Europe became more difficult, Jesselson inquired of
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Jesselson worked to secure mineral assets for the use of the United States war effort with a focus on outbidding German purchasers of minerals and metals in neutral countries. In 1945, the company was broken up with Siegfried Bendheim taking the chemical business and establishing a new
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who suggested that they take the firm public via a merger with
Minerals & Chemical Corporation of America, a mining and processing firm (in which Meyer also had an interest). In 1960, the IPO was completed and the new firm named Minerals & Chemicals Philipps Corporation. In 1962, Ullmann
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who owned a minority interest in
Minerals & Chemicals Philipps Corporation), forming Engelhard Minerals & Chemicals Corporation. Jesselson then focused on the needs of new countries formed from decolonization which needed capital to develop their resources and channels to sell their
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