Word: billion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus having gained the confidence of Woolworth executives, Agents McNelis & Weir ambitiously toyed with another idea. Why not sell magazines in Woolworth's?not magazines already in existence, but magazines edited especially for Woolworth customers, sold only in Woolworth stores? There was an outlet of approximately three billion persons annually passing up and down Woolworth aisles; people who had come not just to look but to spend. Last year they spent $287,000,000. The proposition was propounded to the executives. This time there were no deaf ears, little hesitancy. Four magazines, McNelis-Weir executed, will be sold in Woolworth...
...announcement was made, had crashed badly. Six hours ahead of New York, Friday's market at Amsterdam had opened with U. S. Steel plunging downward. To add to the threat of another Black Friday*; was the fact that brokers loans reached a new all time high, over six billion dollars. At the New York Stock Exchange, the gallery was packed with spectators by 9:30 a.m. Five minutes before the opening the ticker flashed: "The floor is filled with sellers...
...York had no such worry. In its Catskill and Croton reservoirs were 240 billion gallons of water, enough to carry through until next year without rain...
Into the extremely select circle of U. S. corporations whose annual sales total one billion dollars, Swift & Co. will this year probably move, having done nearly a billion dollars a year for many a year. But big, energetic Louis F. Swift,* who works all day at a stand-up desk, gets as profits for his company only a small slice (less than 2%) of his gross...
...every name in Directors of the United States appears in Who's Who. Directors vary from smalltime politicians on the boards of backwoods construction companies to tycoons on billion dollar corporations. Unique among U. S. Directors is George Fisher Baker Jr. who is on four billion dollar corporations: General Motors, General Electric, U. S. Steel, American Tel. & Tel. Last week while his Tel. & Tel. and General Electric were in the midst of a 23 and a 25 point rise, unique Director Baker did something which surprised his conservative stockholders, about half of whom are women. The board, including Thomas...