Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...initial task of the contractors, the McCutcheon Co., will be the destruction of the clay tennis courts which now occupy the construction site behind Moors Hall...
...Brave Ones, then, is a marvelous example of cinema craftsmanship that handles a simple theme extraordinarily well and with a rare artistry, but with few concessions to truth. Co-featured is a nauseous dog-epic with Van Johnson, entitled Kelly...
...Missouri-Kansas-Texas line three months ago (TIME, Jan. 21), railroaders agreed that the new president would put the coughing Katy back on the tracks if anybody could. With a reputation as a savior of sick railroads, Deramus came to Katy fresh from rescuing the Chicago Great Western Railway Co. from heavy debt, hoped to do the same for Katy, whose earnings skidded 37% in 1956, and whose preferred stockholders were due $106 million in dividend arrears. In short order, Deramus trimmed the Katy's payrolls, ordered economies in everything from telephone calls to recordkeeping, even abolished his public...
...first time in four years, Montgomery Ward & Co. marched back into the nation's most select business club last week, proudly took its place among the 30-odd U.S. companies with sales of $1 billion annually. In 1956, announced Chairman John A. Barr, Ward's sales totaled $1,045,767,458, up 7.8% for the year, and earnings edged forward to $35,844,479. Later in the week Barr and his management team showed one of the reasons why. In Portsmouth, Ohio, they snipped the ribbons on Ward's first new retail store in the U.S. since...
Fast-moving Montgomery Ward still has some laps to travel before catching its main rival, Sears, Roebuck & Co. Reported Sears last week: 1956 sales totaled $3,555,684,148, for a jump of 7.5% in the year, and earnings were $164,816,293. Significantly, noted Sears, "increased competition in our field" lowered after-tax net to 4.6% of sales...