Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Education, Los Angeles Board of Education-altogether, 200 public-school systems and more than 1,000 private and parochial schools. He was selling over a million records a y.ear...
From the Federal Reserve Board came more bullish news in a survey of consumer buying. Despite the recession in the first half of the year, FRB found that few consumers had curtailed buying plans. FRB also noted that consumers were, by & large, counting on a continued high level of income-and with good reason. Personal income for the first eight months of the year, the Department of Commerce reported last week, was at a record rate of $212.6 billion, some $3.2 billion more than in the same period last year...
...Named as president was Clifford S. Strike, 46, president of Manhattan's F. H. McGraw & Co., which built, among other World War II projects, the $36 million Bermuda air base. Last week in a green-carpeted office on Manhattan's East 42nd Street, O.C.I. President Strike and Board Chairman...
...Andrew Jergens, who relentlessly advertised the charm of soft hands, was no soft touch for labor unions. Though the A.F.L. Cosmetic Workers were certified in 1941 as bargaining agent for Jergens' 150 employees in his Burbank, Calif, plant, Jergens refused to bargain even after the National War Labor Board ordered...
...Federal Reserve Board's antitrust hearings in San Francisco against Transamerica Corp. last week entered their second year. For the past year, FRB has been trying to do two things: i) prove that Transamerica is a monopoly, and 2) force it to sell its holdings in Bank...