Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven months and two days after the 12,000.oooth. This was the second shortest million-unit period in the company's history. Two days later Ford Motor Co. turned out the i.ooo.oooth V8, 1937 model, built in the U. S. since production started last October. C. For the benefit of bankers and investment houses generally, and of their law- yers in particular, scholarly Director Harold H. Neff of the SEC's Division of Forms & Regulations last week made public a complete lesson in brevity. Declaring that prospectuses for security issues were too long and gummed up with unnecessary...
...Committee had shown the film, Paramount released it for public exhibition, explaining that strike emotions had now cooled enough. Though the picture was promptly banned in Chicago by the police censor, the public release was. if anything, more anti-climactic than the showing by the committee, which had the benefit of a slow-motion reprint. The main clash is over so quickly that the impression is simply one of furious confusion. All taken from the police side, it shows no fighting closeups, none of the strikers in action. Audiences last week did not begin to hiss, boo and shout until...
...Loyal Opposition strongly identified themselves with the French and Spanish Leftist Governments. Declared prominent British Laborite Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, M. P.: "I desire to make it clear that members on the Labor benches are ready to support any action which, without injuring our position, is of benefit to the other democratic nation across the English Channel...
Stage-managed by his Washington press-agent was a luncheon the following day at which Mr. Girdler carried on for the benefit of a few handpicked newshawks. Earlier efforts by reporters to arrange an open press conference collapsed when Mr. Girdler is said to have learned that Columnist Heywood Broun planned to attend. Even at his private conference Mr. Girdler got into hot water. Calling the Mediation Board "incompetent and unfair," he asked: "Who is Taft? He is a man who likes to talk about the things his father did. Who is Ed McGrady? He is Fannie Perkins...
...Canadian coast patrol boat Givenchy landed at Nanaimo, B.C. last week with the laconic statement that, for the benefit of fishermen, 2,200 sea lions had been killed during a three-week cruise. The Givenchy'?, crew used rifles (borrowed from the Navy) instead of machine guns, because a certain amount of sharpshooting is necessary. The carcasses were left where they fell...