Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Annual meetings, like trout-fly sales, are a highly seasonal phenomenon. Singer Manufacturing Co.'s shareholders do not gather until autumn because it takes nine or ten months to collect its sewing machine figures from all the Earth's corners. Bank of the Manhattan Co. holds its meeting in December before the year is done. But traditional annual meeting season is spring. And last week throughout the land stockholders took full advantage of their yearly opportunity to ask questions, make speeches and exercise their corporate franchise...
...event saddened many, it surprised few. As she aged, the Mauretania grew more & more expensive to operate. Two years ago her owners painted her famed old hull white, sent her on West Indies cruises. Last autumn she was tied up at Southampton with a skeleton crew aboard. In January the crew was dismissed, the four big stacks covered over, the 70,000-h.p. turbines shut down...
Chrysler Corp. had the best three months in its history. It produced and shipped 249,064 cars and trucks against 167,842 in the first quarter of 1934. Henry Ford, who promised last autumn to turn out 1.000,000 cars this year, had doubled production. His output of V-8 cars and trucks for the quarter jumped to 386,326 against 194,859 in the same period 'last year-an increase of 98%. General Motors turned out 388,716 trucks and cars against 316,604 for the first quarter of 1934. At week's end the Automobile Manufacturers...
...less than 1% of the total U. S. automobile business, Hupp Motor Car Corp. makes an astonishing amount of financial news. For several years most of the news concerned the strenuous efforts of Archie Moulton Andrews, Hupp's biggest stockholder, to oust the old management. By last autumn Mr. Andrews was safely intrenched in the Hupp offices as board chairman, but peace failed to follow. Just as strenuous efforts were promptly launched to oust Mr. Andrews. And by last week the shrewd, breezy archpromoter, who does most of his work in a labyrinth of lawsuits...
Married. Tom Campbell Black, co-winner of the MacRobertson Trophy, England-to-Australia air race last autumn (TIME, Oct. 29); and Florence Desmond. British actress, mimic ("The Hollywood Party"); in London...