Word: co
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York apparel makers it was the best fall fashion preview in years. Not only did a record number of out-of-town buyers show up, but their orders were 10% to 20% ahead of last year. What won over the buyers, said Felix Lilienthal Jr. of Felix Lilienthal & Co., Inc., big independent resident buying house (150 accounts, $800 million a year in purchases), was the eminent "wearability, salability and promotability" of this year's fashions. Whatever her age or shape, the customer this year will find clothes that fit and become her. Said Lilienthal: "The new fashions will...
UNITED MINE WORKERS paid $438,000 in damages for violence in trying to organize Meadow Creek Coal Co. of Montgomery, Tenn. Action has spurred other mine operators to sue for $6,000,000 in damages, and additional suits totaling $7,000,000 are expected soon. To meet assault on its $21 million treasury, U.M.W. assessed its 190,000 members $20 each...
...SHIRT PRICES will be boosted about 6% next month by Manhattan Shirt Co. on big-volume, $4 shirts. Other major makers are expected to follow move in industry's first major price boost on brand-name, medium-priced dress shirts since...
...TEAMSTER BOSS Dave Beck was indicted by federal grand jury with Roy Fruehauf, president of Fruehauf Trailer Co., and Burge Seymour, president of Associated Transport, Inc. Government charged that $200,000 loan from Fruehauf's and Seymour's companies violated Taft-Hartley Act. Maximum penalty: a year in jail and $10,000 fine...
...richest plum among the oil industry's independents finally fell last week, and it went to one of the strongest integrated majors. In an $810 million deal, Texaco, No. 2 U.S. producer-No. 1: Standard Oil Co. (N.J.)-and refiner, bought California's profitable Superior Oil Co., whose earnings last year totaled $39.20 a share. Superior stockholders will get 24 shares of Texaco for each share they now hold; Texaco will then absorb Superior's holdings and dissolve the company...