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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizenship, became solely a Danish subject like her husband, sailed back to England on the Europa after 36 hours in the U. S. Through her attorneys the granddaughter of the 5?-&-10? chain's Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth explained she desired to avoid "various legal complications." Biggest complication avoided: the estimated $21,000,000 U. S. inheritance tax her estate would lose at her death...
...January 1935 Marshall Field & Co. had the largest drygoods business in the world, the largest building in the world (Chicago's Merchandise Mart for trade exhibitions), the second biggest department store in the world and one of the biggest drygoods wholesale businesses in the U. S. It also had a reputation sacrosanct in Chicago and gilt-edged the world around. Nonetheless, in the previous four years it had lost $13,200,000 and the directors were so worried that they hired a business analyst named James O. Mc-Kinsey to study the matter. Hulking, robust J. O. McKinsey...
...Tigers had worked a trade: Pitcher Vernon Kennedy, Infielder Tony Piet and Outfielder Dixie Walker of the White Sox for Outfielder Gerald Walker, Third Baseman Marvin Owen and Catcher Mike Tresh of the Tigers. Consensus was that Jimmy Dykes had slipped one over on his old teammate in the biggest deal of the year...
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union is proud of having the biggest local (New York 89: 42,138 members) of any U. S. labor union. By last week I. L. G. W. U. had something else to be proud of. While the Broadway season continued to number more flops than successes, I. L. G. W. U.'s homemade show, Pins and Needles, had become a definite hit. Produced last month by Labor Stage, Inc. as a weekend venture, the show had been so jammed since then that Labor Stage announced last week that it would present the show every...
...first eleven months of 1937, U. S. publishers brought out 9,982 new titles, making 1937 the biggest publishing year since 1929. There were 1,798 new novels, 610 biographies and autobiographies, 302 travel books, 991 new titles in the field of belles-lettres that includes poetry and criticism, 685 titles that came under the general head of politics, economics and the social sciences. In this enormous mass of bookssed, confusing...