Word: duns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harris, House Office, Dun, J-39: Tuesday 5 - 6 o'clock...
Last week Dr. Coster and his crude drugs became the X and Y of a mystery-story equation. Other factors were forged Dun & Bradstreet reports, dummy trading companies, phantom warehouses, vanished inventories and missing assets...
Last month, while checking up on inventory insurance, Treasurer Thompson found that the insurance did not cover crude drug inventories. Dr. Coster told him the insurance was handled by W. W. Smith & Co., the company's Montreal agent. Mr. Thompson found several Dun & Bradstreet reports in the company files showing W. W. Smith to be a worldwide trading company with assets of between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000. Suspicious Mr. Thompson went to Dun & Bradstreet and was told the reports were forgeries. Next Mr. Thompson began checking up on W. W. Smith and on another Montreal firm...
...Breeze plant near Baltimore. During the week 25,000 people, many of them employes seeing other jobs than their own for the first time, many of them local bigwigs, herded through a mile and a half of roped runways, saw spools do a Maypole dance as they braided a dun cotton cover on wire, a spark tester ring a buzzer when it found flaws in insulation, pencil- size copper wire drawn through a diamond slot to hair thickness at 120 m.p.h. Most interesting sight to reporters: Far from being distracted, proud workers spruced up more than usual, speeded production, decreased...
...money. Leading middle-of-the-roader is New York City's little Fiorello H. LaGuardia. who is financing Relief expenditures through an emergency sales tax, lately turned down a proffered PWA $2,700,000. explaining that he found it cheaper to finance necessary improvements privately. Last week Dun & Bradstreet's Frederick Bird gave municipal financiers a warning, a yardstick...