Word: dourness
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...cramming their shelves against a rise in food prices, helped General Foods make $3,680,000 in the March quarter last year. With buying "more nearly normal" in the first three months of this year. General Foods' profits were down to $3,361,000. C. Edward J. Cornish, dour president of National Lead Co., told his stockholders last week that March quarter business was the best for that period since 1930. President Cornish declared that he could easily raise prices but that he preferred not to "squeeze" consumers. Profits from European operations were currently better than from those...
Born 67 years ago in Bald Mount, Pa., the plump, dour little merchant has cherished his farm-learned virtues, of which the dearest is Hard Work. He has spent his millions freely in a long war against Rum, Tobacco and other worldly evils, has set up a $25,000,000 Kresge Foundation to further his moral and philanthropic ends.* Offered a drink or a cigar, Mr. Kresge says politely: "Hoping always to have my own views and opinions respected, I respect the opinions of others." Another Kresgeism: "If there were any sound arguments to be advanced on behalf...
...dour Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer of the Christian Catholic (Apostolic) Church, longtime political boss of outlandish Zion, Ill., believer in a flat World and often prophet of its imminent end. the world which he had spent 25 years in building last week crumbled. Zion's voters defeated all but one of his candidates for local office. Creditors of Zion Industries and Institutions Inc., bent on a receivership reorganization which would exclude Voliva from all share in its management, had him haled into Federal court...
...Dour Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour last week pardoned and set free good Mrs. May Brownhill who was sentenced to Hang after she confessed, "I did put Dennis to sleep with 100 sleeping tablets, and before I left him I did turn...
...Lean, dour, grey-haired, with black eyes, big ears and dark lines of concentration on his face, Al Munro Elias still spends all his spare time watching baseball games, marking each play nervously on a special pad. The Bureau office, where his brother Walter is general manager, is equipped with an adding machine. Al Munro Elias has his clerks operate it, uses their results to compile his own statistics in his head. He does most of his work at his apartment, except when visiting baseball training camps each spring. In 1928, when he was 56, Al Munro Elias lost...