Word: duns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earnings in the company's history. President Ralph J. Cordiner predicted that G.E.'s profits for the entire year would be better than in 1953. For those whose earnings were down, the drop was usually less, percentagewise, than the drop in sales. There were other encouraging signs. Dun & Bradstreet announced that department-store sales for the Easter season were equal to those last year. And the National Association of Purchasing Agents reported, for the third month in a row, that the majority of their members reported an increase in orders...
...committee to which Fox was named is headed by Edwin B. George, of Dun and Bradstreet...
...Chevrolet plant were put on a four-day week, Cadillac buyers were told they would have to wait two months for the most expensive models, longer for lower-priced Cadillacs. Another optimistic note: Construction in January hit $2.4 billion-up 3% from a year ago. And a Dun & Bradstreet survey of 1,315 top executives showed that 46% expected second-quarter business to be better than a year ago, 32% expected no change. Only 22% looked for a drop...
Died. Manabendra Nath Roy, 61, onetime member of the Moscow Soviet and a leading member of the Comintern's Second Congress (1920), later (1929) expelled from the party for right-wing deviationism; of cerebral thrombosis; at Dehra Dun, India...
...businessmen short of cash might have to unload in a hurry. In some areas, sales would certainly fall. Farm income was on the way down, and sales of farm equipment were slipping. Nevertheless, most businessmen were optimistic about the rest of the year. Of 1,281 businessmen surveyed by Dun & Bradstreet, six put of ten expected that this year's fourth-quarter sales would be higher than last year...