Word: elgin
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...Elgin Hour, Massa Robert Cummings tried valiantly to save his old plantation from a flood, keep his ex-waitress wife at home, and bail out his amoral brother-in-law who had a tendency to shoot upstate troopers. On NBC's Lux Video Theater, there was plenty of hysteria mixed in with the wisteria as Massa Zachary Scott kept mooning about the veranda of his columned home while trying to make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy. On Robert Montgomery Presents, Paul McGrath played a Yankee who couldn't choose...
Three big watchmakers-Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham-set off an alarm in Washington last week over tariffs. Before a Senate Armed Services subcommittee, they testified that higher tariffs for watches are vital to national defense. The alarm was well timed. It came as word leaked out that the U.S. Tariff Commission, by a 4-2 vote, has recommended to President Eisenhower that tariffs on all Swiss watches and movements be raised about 50%,* thus putting the squeeze on imports of Swiss movements...
...year before the present tariffs went into effect, to $19 million in 1952; Elgin rose from $7,000,000 in 1935 to about $51 million in 1952 (sales of both companies included defense work). Since...
...President Truman turned down higher tariffs on Swiss watch imports, but Elgin, Hamilton and Waltham have again demanded peril-point protection...
GENERAL MILLS, whose sales of housewares have been slipping, sold out its small-appliance business (electric irons, mixers, etc.) to Mc-Graw Electric Co. of Elgin, 111. (Toastmaster). Last year General Mills' housewares-division sales amounted to 2% of the company's $483 million gross, but current sales are estimated at less than 1 % or under...