Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administering Liberia. Founded 114 years ago with U. S. help as a home for liberated slaves. Liberia has become the scandal and pesthouse of West Africa. Slavery is rampant in the interior, so is malaria. Both have made inroads in neighboring British and French territory, but the only respectable firm that has ever made serious inroads in Liberia is Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio. Many times in recent years there have been delicate hints that the League of Nations would be more than pleased if the U. S. would accept a mandate over Liberia...
...Reader Getz consider the undenied statement in FORTUNE, March 1934 ("Arms and The Men"), that France's Schneider Creusot armaments firm secretly helped finance Adolf Hitler, then turned around and propagandized at home for defense against rearmed Germany...
Died. Percy Procter, 83, brother of William A. and Harley Procter who with James Gamble founded the Cincinnati soap firm, uncle of its late Board Chairman William Cooper Procter; in Atlantic City. Connected for a time with the firm, Percy Procter left it to found Procter-Collier Advertising...
...Firm and wide proportions...
...Salle Street the crack-up of Manny Rosenbaum was not altogether unexpected last week. After inheriting the firm from his father about 20 years ago, Trader Rosenbaum began an ambitious program of expansion, considered himself something of an Insull in the grain business. Besides loading himself up with grain elevators, he opened a string of 15 branch offices. Lately he was reported slapping quantities of cash into Polish rye, Argentine corn and oats. Sincerely disliked by many a grain broker for his personality and methods, Manny Rosenbaum was a central figure in the Armour grain scandal...