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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indiana-born Dwight Green went to work as an income-tax expert for U. S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson, whom he succeeded in 1932. Dwight Green's biggest income-tax case sent Al Capone to prison. He later tried (and failed) to send venerable Samuel Insull to jail for mail fraud. By the time open-faced, athletic, prematurely grey Pete Green retired to his modest private practice (mostly utilities), he had made his way among the solid Republicans who belong to the Union League Club. When they drafted him to stop Thompson, Pete Green gave jowly Big Bill...
Since October 1, 1938, when Newspaper Guildsmen walked out on city-wide strike, no daily newspaper has been published in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a coal-mining and silk-weaving city whose retail stores serve about 300,000 persons. Deprived of their No. 1 advertising medium, the five biggest Wilkes-Barre stores have distributed a weekly "Shoppers Bulletin" to 73,000 homes. (Total circulation of the dormant evening News, Times-Leader and morning Record: 73,000.) Smaller stores have combined to publish a 24-page tabloid "Buyers Guide" with about 53.000 circulation, which also takes paid classified ads. By agreement...
...Napoleonic ambitions were put to more constructive use-diversifying Celotex's products to give it a general line of building materials. It made $736,000 in 1936, $1,267,000 in 1937. This is still cottage size next to the manorial 1937 profits of its two biggest competitors, Johns-Manville Corp ($5,450,000) and U. S. Gypsum...
...afforded cheap transportation. Goodrich celebrated its 70th birthday last week by announcing a 1938 net of $2,240,119 after a 1937 loss of $878,580. Surpassing it in size are three younger competitors-Firestone Tire & Rubber, U. S. Rubber, Goodyear Tire & Rubber. Goodyear, now the industry's biggest (with 1938 profit of $6,012,423 on net sales of $165,000,000), was founded in Akron in 1898 by the Seiberling family, has no connection with Inventor Goodyear save its name, chosen to do him honor...
...five big U. S. airlines chipped in towards development of the ship, agreed to buy none like it for 18 months. Since then T. W. A. and Pan American have ordered Boeing four-motored 307's and other lines appear to have cooled in their enthusiasm for the biggest Douglas, reputedly because of high operation costs. Last week United Air Lines' crack Pilot Benny Howard was at Santa Monica getting acquainted with the DC-4, intended at week's end to take it out on U. A. L.'s system to see what could be done...