Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest doll manufacturer on the West Coast is a copper-haired, blue-eyed, thirtyish San Franciscan named Nancy Ann Abbott, who had intended to be a movie star. Last week Miss Abbott sat in unaccustomed peace in her blue-carpeted studio-office: by her orders all the telephone lines that connect Nancy Ann Dressed Dolls Inc. with the world had been disconnected. Her reason: "When that phone rings it means trouble...
Forty-five per cent of the fifty-six billion dollars used to finance the production of industry in 1943 was supplied by the government, according to a report, "The Financial Situation of Industry after Two Years of War," by Dr. Charles C. Abbott '28, associate professor of Business Economics at the Business School...
Professor Abbott asserts that although the cash balances of business concerns have greatly increased since 1939, the working capital position of manufacturing business is poorer than before the war. The significant aspects of the situation are not the increases in cash and current assets but the ratio of these current assets to liabilities, and the adequacy of current assets to maintain present production levels in the future...
Since liabilities have risen more than assets. Professor Abbott declares that "sound public policy clearly should take account of this fact, and should not make the mistake of assuming that business has excess liquid funds...
...customary "Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly," "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen," "Good King Wenceslas," and also several new ones, including "The Hunter," and "Now Leave Your Flocks," "Christmas Day Is Coming," an Irish carol arranged expressly for this year's Harvard-Radcliffe Choir by Ruth E. Abbott...