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...consumption of cattle hides totals about 19,000,000 a year and the biggest individual buyer of them is the only woman buyer in the industry. She is short, blonde Sue Fitzgerald, who got her start as a stenographer in a tannery, now buys a million or more hides a year for International Shoe Co. Miss Fitzgerald, like most other representatives of big tanneries and shoe companies, does her buying in Chicago, centre of the packing industry of which cattle hides are a $100,000,000-a-year byproduct...
Brisk, businesslike, ultraconservative Colonel Sir Maurice Hankey. permanent Secretary to the Cabinet, the Committee of Imperial Defense, and Clerk of the Privy Council, last week relinquished these posts, accepted a $9,000-a-year directorship on the Suez Canal Co. board...
Last week the sleuths caught a culprit redhanded. In his pocket were torn pieces of a letter and three marked $1 bills which they had mailed as bait. He was small. meek William Buckly, 57 and father of four, a $1,500-a-year file clerk in the White House mail room. Off to jail he went for six months...
...each. Customer response was feeble. Undaunted, Mr. Benson tried again with 4,000 two-pants suits, all at $17. These, aggressively advertised, sold. Manufacturers, sensing fewer unit sales, fought the innovation, but it caught on, became a trend. By 1929 Benson & Rixon's one-store $200,000-a-year business had developed into a seven-store chain with annual trade...
Boats. Since 1935 Alaska's $46,000,000-a-year salmon-fishing industry, which depends on salmon spawned in Alaskan rivers and caught as they return from the sea to the rivers to breed, has yelled bloody murder about Japanese fishermen operating offshore. When the Japanese Government subsidized a three-year "salmon survey" of the Bering Sea in 1935, Alaska fishermen maintained that Japanese boats were trawling with heavy nets in all seasons, would soon exhaust the grounds. Japan retorted variously that she was investigating the possibility of floating canneries, that her nationals were not invading U. S. waters...