Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyer, Henry Farquharson, after insisting that plans called for firing of less than 20% of 4,500 employees, added ominously: "You can't go on indefinitely." What he meant was that Shell could not go on pouring money into a plan which has not yet produced a single drop of oil in ten years' exploration...
...sometimes overshadows his coaching ability. Thoroughly Americanized he still cherishes the memory of his native land even to the extent of joking that he always likes to "stand near the 'finish' line" at a track meet. His attractive wife shares this feeling and when members of the track team drop in for tea at the Mikkola abode in Belmont, they find themselves holding platefuls of homemade Finnish parties and jams. And a glance at the living room wall reveals pastoral scenes of Finnish meadows, lakes and mountains...
Sales have been held at high levels by the spending of wartime savings and installment buying, said BAE. But wartime savings of many consumers are gone. The only hope of averting the recession, in BAE's opinion, is an early drop in prices. This would keep up purchasing power...
...after this gloomy talk, the stockmarket had its sharpest one-day drop in six months. The Dow-Jones industrial averages fell 4.83 points to 177.05 and continued to slide down 1.21 points the following day. Wall Streeters, who have lately been blaming the "international situation" for the jittery market, promptly put some of the blame on BAE. But commodity prices, which have risen so sharply recently that many besides BAE think they are in for a bad fall, kept right on rising. March wheat futures hit a new 27-year high of 2.64¼ a bushel. How high would they...
...Harvester Co., showed how, in a way everyone could understand. As Young Henry Ford had two months ago, Fowler McCormick cut the prices of his products (tractors, trucks, farm machinery) a round $20,000,000 a year, almost 5% of his gross sales. Harvester is not worried about a drop in sales-yet. But, said McCormick: "We decided to give the benefit [of high earnings] to customers rather than stockholders or employees because the time is here to recognize customers as an integral part of a business. Our present wage-price-profit mechanism is out of date. All industry finds...