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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earnings, I think, are still the best way to show how you're doing, and the box score in the pen business for the 12 -month period ending Feb. 28, 1946 was: Net Earnings Before Taxes After Taxes Parker $7,3O1,548.72 $2,331,682.99 Eversharp 5,602,444.56 1,805,444.56 Sheaffer 1,606,946.43 847,460.14 Others Unknown but smaller As long as two years ago, our management realized (between naps) that we could make a quick fast bulge in sales and profits by marketing a ball pen. You don't have to be the seventh...
Married. Morton Cecil ("Mort") Cooper, 33, burly Boston Braves ace pitcher (who on his wedding night was knocked out of the box by unfeeling St. Louis Cardinals); and Viola ("Dee") Smallwood, 25; he for the third time, she for the first; in Boston...
...huge job of cheating had been done. Said he: Longchamps kept two sets of books, juggled one set by understating sales and overstating purchases, used the faked figures in filing 1940-44 tax returns, siphoned the money, along with tips taken from hat-check girls, into a safety deposit box...
...there loomed one of the brightest theatrical events in years: England's world-famous Old Vic was arriving for six weeks of repertory, with such topnotchers in its cast as Laurence Olivier (TIME, April 8) and Ralph Richardson (TIME, Dec. 31). On the morning last month when the box office first opened, double lines of ticket buyers stretched for blocks; and by the evening last week when the first curtain rose on Henry IV, Part I, the advance sale had reached nearly...
Variety's high box-office scores (for April): 1) Dragonwyck (20th Century-Fox); 2) Ziegfeld Follies (M-G-M); 3) The Virginian (Paramount); 4) Saratoga Trunk (Warner); 5) Road to Utopia (Paramount...