Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short, the Brookings thesis holds that industrial management has not progressed as fast or as far in its price policies as it has in its technological skill. Cynics claim that this was because Big Business designed its price policies primarily for monopolistic and profit-hogging reasons. The new Brookings book, Industrial Price Policies and Economic Progress, therefore took as its theme the factors that entered into an executive's choice of certain prices for his company's products. Lion's share of the credit for the first four volumes went to the Institution's president, bald...
Last week Merchant-Yachtsman Foote set out for Puerto Vallarta to claim his $25,000 Tira, undecided as to what sort of punishment should be meted out to boys who would swipe a yacht to hunt buried treasure. Some people thought Merchant Foote would exact no greater penalty than making the boys, as crew, sail the Tira back to Santa Cruz. "Gosh," he said wistfully as he departed, "I wish I had been on that trip. . . . I have been used only to cruises around Monterey...
Thus highlighted was the ironical fact that an action to avoid a Governmental reprimand for monopoly might increase monopoly. It has always been the steel industry's claim, seconded by cement and other heavy industries, that without price stabilization of some sort the inevitable result is a number of monopoly mills whose strategic position enables them to undersell and consequently force out of business their competitors...
...through. From Bangkok, Siam, where he had chased her, Alexis Mdivani, a polo-playing princeling of the marrying Mdivanis of Georgia, Russia, announced that Barbara had finally consented to marry him. This was real news in anybody's paper. It got better when the prince relinquished any future claim to Barbara's fortune, having first received $1,000,000 from her. Then he married her in Byzantine splendor in Paris' Russian Orthodox Church. Hiring half a deck of an ocean liner, they set off for a round-the-world honeymoon...
...PhiIip Morris' sales for 1937 were 7,500,000,000; Old Gold's, 7,900,000,000. No figures for this year are yet available but Barron's, the National Financial Weekly, has already concurred with Mr. Lyon's claim that P. M. now leads Old Gold...