Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Free offer of a hermetically sealed box by a firm was vetoed by President Conant, because of the danger that lack of air might lead to chemical decomposition of the contents. But for the 1936 president who knows his chemistry, the 2036 president might ceremoniously open a box full of dust...
...when the great decline set in. How much of his fortune, once estimated at anywhere from $5,000,000 to $25,000,000, was lost in the next few years, no one who knows will tell. Presumably the figure was big enough to bother even optimistic Mr. Meehan. His firm did some heroic retrenching in the way of lopping off branch offices, including those at sea on crack transatlantic liners. But reports that the high-strung, red-haired onetime theatre ticket agent had lost his last shirt were exaggerated. Year ago Broker Meehan presented his son on his 21st birthday...
...marry Mrs. Simpson till next April anyway. And if Mr. Baldwin persists in driving out the chief obstacle to his Conservatism, he will probably find that the name of a ruined king is far from a ruined rallying cry, and that the defiance of a great tradition is no firm basis for popularity. Mr. Baldwin is already unpopular enough...
Revered in the frugal offices of James Talcott, Inc. at No. 225 Fourth Avenue, in the heart of Manhattan's mercantile district, is the old desk of the Connecticut Yankee who founded the famed factoring firm in 1854. On the desk is a richly-bound volume of letters written on the occasion of the firm's 80th anniversary by the nation's great. Visitors are allowed to thumb through the volume and, if themselves distinguished, are occasionally invited to sit in the Founder's own chair. Generations of dead Talcotts gaze from their portraits...
...manufacturer with immediate cash for goods he sold on credit. Talcott has a tremendous credit department, so that a client, if he wants, may dispense with his own credit department entirely. Sometimes Talcott will merely assume the credit risk without advancing cash, receiving a fee for this service. The firm factors about 400 concerns, makes a point of assigning two officers with the authority to make decisions to each account, insisting that at least one always be at his desk. Most of the clients are small companies, unknown to the general public, unable to duplicate for themselves the facilities...