K.A. President John Jackson.
United Dry Goods, Inc. was a Kramer Associates daughter company created as part of the Jackson restructuring engineered by K.A. President John Jackson from 1929 to 1932. United Dry Goods was likely the subsidiary that received control of the Carminales Lighting Company.
In For All Nails, United Dry Goods is the Kramer subsidiary that oversees the "Factfinding and Forecasting Division", i.e. the company's international intelligence service.