Word: earns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Owens-Illinois Glass Co., took over Libbey Glass Manufacturing Co. Libbey makes tumblers, glasses, finger-bowls, pitchers, all manner of glass tableware, is not to be confused with Libbey-Owens-Ford which makes plate glass. With the glass business, like the bottle business, boomed by Repeal, Libbey should earn about $500,000 in 1935. Mr. Levis paid for the Libbey company with 47,200 shares of Owens-Illinois stock which closed last week at 106 and so constituted a $5,000,000 consideration. Libbey will operate as an Owens-Illinois division with President Joseph W. Robinson continuing as its head...
...many rooms in your house? How much rent do you pay? How much money did the family earn last year...
...success of General William Booth Enters Into Heaven after 1913 lifted him to an eminence almost as unhappy as his isolation had been. After his marriage in 1925, the responsibilities of a family wore on him heavily, since even at the height of his fame he could earn only $1,500 a year. With only $76 in his possession, $4.000 in debt and with a wife and two children to care for, he grew increasingly melancholy, developed delusions, sometimes heard voices plotting his death. He believed that the Jews were responsible for his failures, grew increasingly violent as he denounced...
...were not enough chickens around a farmhouse set. Another time he got into a furious fight about his dialect, which Director Charles Vidor criticized. "Oh, it ain't Irish, isn't it?" he yelled. "Well, let me tell you, Mr. Know-It-All, it's been Irish enough to earn me a good living for 25 years. If any man could tell good from bad Irish it wouldn't be a thick-talking Dutchman like yourself...
...little industry began to expand. In 1932, 14,000,000 Good Humors were sold in New York and Chicago and, although no figures are given, sales have probably gone higher. All the Good Humors earn money directly for Good Humor Corp. of America except those sold in Los Angeles, Tulsa, Miami and Dallas. Manufacturers in those four cities are licensed by Mr. Meehan's company on a royalty basis. Production is simple. Good Humor uses the best ice cream and chocolate, charges 10¢. It expends its ingenuity on merchandising...