Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oddest deal of Britain's present effort to rearm herself as fast as possible, the Admiralty turned last week to a Sheffield steel firm, Thomas W. Ward Ltd., who recently bought the liner Majestic to break up for scrap. The Admiralty offered a handsome sum to buy the Majestic, seeking to turn her into a training ship. Ward & Co. were not unwilling to sell but pointed out that to fill other contracts they were in immediate need of metal. At this the Admiralty threw in two old British submarines suitable for scrap in part payment for the German-built...
...industrialized East. Eastern headquarters were established at Philadelphia and to this new satrapy, Julius Rosenwald, Chicago's great mail order magnate, sent his own son, quiet, hardworking, philanthropic Lessing Julius Rosenwald. The great Julius died, and four years ago Son Lessing became board chairman of the firm. Even then he did not return to Chicago. Once a week or oftener he taxis thither by air to confer with Sears' President Robert E. Wood, but his home is in Philadelphia and most of his work is done in his office in the tower of Sears Roebuck's great...
...South. The growth of cities, the building of roads that took farmers to town, the competition of chain stores, led Sears Roebuck in 1925 to begin opening retail stores. By 1929 it had upwards of 300 stores, today 400. This year, as it happens, the firm is again back to about the 1929 level of business. Results for the first six months indicate that sales will nearly equal 1929's total of $443,000,000 and profits will reach, if not 1929's $30,000,000, the $25,000,000-$27,000,000 level...
...found. Next, with the assistance of police surgeons, Sculptor Guinzburg began to patch up the missing features, combining them in six different models. Haverstraw's Who was modeled: i) with the right eye closed, the left eye open; 2) squinting; 3) with a closed jaw and a hard & firm mouth; 4) with a bulbous nose; 5) with a mustache. Model No. 6, brought to New York last week, was a composite of all the others. New York City police were impressed...
...advanced type training plane. Two of the entries were from factories which have long supplied the Army with good planes (North American, Northrop). They were therefore less interesting to onlookers than the third competitor, a stubby little monoplane entered by Seversky Aircraft Corp., a five-year-old firm which in the past twelvemonth has mushroomed from almost nothing to top-notch military importance...