Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profits of the four great dime store chains were collated last week. F. W. Woolworth Co., S. S. Kresge Co., McCrory Stores Corp. and S. H. Kress & Co. all together had available for dividends $43,352,240, a gain of $7,435,759-20.7%-over the $35,916,481 which their net earnings were in 1924. (1924 earnings were only $580,372-1.5%-greater than those of 1923.) Comparison...
...pupil. The New York Central Railway was so pleased to get its business back into its own hands that it engaged Mr. Logan to continue the good work, to write its advertising. The General Electric Co., the Anaconda Copper Co., the International Mercantile Marine, the Radio Corp. of America, and many another vast concern speedily sought Mr. Logan's services. He became known as a wizard at "institutional" advertising. The effects of his work are felt quite as intimately by the individual consumer-in a comfortable, punctual train; a well appointed ship; a sound security. But the distinction between...
...Floranada Club close to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. " . . . Background counts as much as money . . . society . . . has decided to have a new playground . . . impeccable social and financial powers" (TIME, Feb. 1). But such suggestions were not sufficient to make Floranada a financial success., Last week its backers, the American-British Improvement Corp. filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, claiming assets of $2,551,518.58, liabilities...
...original $1,018,583,600 capitalization of the U. S. Steel Corp. was reduced in 1903 by $360,281,100. Its present outstanding capital stock is $868,583,600. Standard Oil of N. J., the largest oil company, has $707,229,675 stock outstanding...
...Jersey* quietly announced that their gross business last year amounted to $1,122,682,610. The amount stirred less interest than the fact that this one of the Standard Oil group does the second largest business in the world, ranking next to the U. S. Steel Corp. ($1,406,505,195) and ahead of General Motors Corp...