Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Avery said that Montgomery Ward's records show nothing like the 500,000 shares of stock that Wolfson claims to own. Then he went on to explain just how profitable his management was. He was so conservative, he said, dragging out charts, because history has shown that a serious...
Actually, the battle started two years ago between Oregon's supermarkets and the State Department of Agriculture, which enforced the controls. The law that had been passed during the depression to help dairy farmers was a hard blow to store distributors. To Oregon's supermarkets, the minimum price...
"I hope you'll forgive me for being personal, but I feel you're my friends and its all right to talk personally to your friends. it hasn't always been so good. I'm not ashamed to say that George and I used to pull a coaster-wagon to...
Soup to Meat. Glenn Martin was not the first company that Troubleshooter Bunker brought to life. Graduated from M.I.T. during the Depression, Engineer Bunker got his start washing soup kettles for Campbell Soup at 38? an hour, helped build a power plant for the company before he left three years...
Middle-Age Spread. With time out for a World War I stint overseas in the field artillery (he came out a private first class), Curtice rapidly rose to AC assistant general manager, vice president, and, at 36, president. Then, in 1933, came an opportunity born of disaster. General Motors'...