Word: bradstreet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...codes-publish it in its final form before it was sent to the White House. "I want everybody to have a crack at it," said the General. Mr. Whiteside recommended that the price-fixing clause be approved. Onetime member of the War Industries Board and now president of Dun & Bradstreet, Mr. Whiteside is a pillar of the NRA and in line for head of one of the four permanent divisions. A sallow, bristle-haired credit man of 50, he handled the shipbuilding, woolen goods and underwear codes...
...Bradstreet reported a sharp gain in retail buying. Housewives, who had lofted department store sales in August 16% above the 1932 level, were flocking back to the counters; the downward sweep of the long-delayed normal summer slump seemed to be flattening out. Best buying was in the Midwest and on the Pacific Coast. Said D. & B.: ''No small part of the maintenance during the last few weeks of the headway made during the spring and summer months is attributable directly to the relentless enterprise of the NRA. . . . There has been no abatement in the rise of employment...
...Bradstreet, merged three weeks ago. last week published their second combined Weekly Review. At the head of "Dun's Industrial Indices" the first item was this...
...Mercantile Agency. He developed the art of dispassionate snooping & prying during the next 40 years until today R. G. Dara & Co. has nearly 200 offices in the U.S. and Canada, 54 offices in 21 foreign countries. But it was not the Mercantile Agency. In 1849 John M. Bradstreet, a Cincinnati lawyer who had learned an amazing amount about other people's affairs as an assignee of an insolvent estate, also started to sell his knowledge. The Bradstreet Co. bloomed into the second largest credit agency, with 183 offices in the U.S. and Canada, 17 offices in foreign lands. Last...
...Bradstreet's price of food index dropped from 1.81 to 1.79 during the week, compared to 2.35 a year ago. Copper reached a new low of 5¼% and then rallied on the hope that a further curtailment agreement might be reached. Cotton held its recent gains. Exports for 1932 were ahead of 1931 last week...