Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Steelmen expected, last week, to find their industry in its customary, unalarming summer doldrums. With surprise and pleasure, therefore, they noted that mighty U. S. Steel Corp. reported unfilled orders (traditionally significant) on June 30 of 3,637,009 tons, an increase of 220,187 tons over May. They noted further that July production was at 75% of capacity, a high average for midsummer. And Carnegie Steel was anticipating even better business by raising prices of steel products $2 a ton, returning to the price levels of the early part...
Memorable was the July 19 balance sheet of the Bancitaly Corp., showing six months' earnings of $35,233,552, more than Bancitaly has ever earned in a full year. Holders of Bancitaly's 5,200,000 outstanding shares may expect, if the same level is maintained until January, that the corporation will have earned $13 on each share, twelve percent on the present market price...
...Chrysler Corp. (new models, new radiator caps): net profits, $11,690,479 for Jan.-June, 1928; as against $10,116,749 for Jan.-June...
Sternly pure (99 44/100%) is Procter and Gamble's Ivory Soap, famed for floating. The Gold Dust Corp., makers of Fairy Soap, appeals to an elf-loving public with the query: "Have You a Little Fairy in Your Home?" Solid qualities of comfort, scents of the Orient (Cashmere Bouquet), are stressed by Colgate...
...Hicksville, N. Y., last fortnight, Nathan L. Miller, onetime Governor of New York, famed attorney for the U. S. Steel Corp., successfully defended a butler for shooting a monkey (TIME, July...