Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less than the declared volume." Following a plea of "guilty," the Tugwell order approved a $50 court fine upon the shippers. Tugwell & Wiseman of Florida Inc. President of Tugwell & Wiseman Inc. is Charles Henry Tugwell, father of the new Undersecretary who is himself a stockholder in the juice-canning firm...
...Federal judge signed an order directing a U. S. marshal to take possession of all assets of Galahad Press, Inc. Galahad Press formally "averred" to the court that it should be declared bankrupt. Among its creditors a local printer claimed $2,695, an editor claimed $130 pay, a firm in Washington $111. This routine little failure was a blow to no great publisher, but it was a blow to a big man in the shirt business...
...Army Ordnance Association, Washington's Metropolitan Club and the St. Cloud Country Club. As a U. S. citizen he still considers himself a Republican. But the most important fact of all about M. Benet is that he is vice president and managing director of the armament firm of Hotchkiss which turns out one of the world's best known machine guns...
...profits Hotchkiss & Cie is really small fry in the armament world compared to such a French giant as Schneider-Creusot. Its distinctions are two: 1) it is independent of Schneider-Creusot which owns or controls 412 arms and allied enterprises including Czechoslovakia's Skoda. 2) Though a French firm, its founder like its present managing director was a U. S. citizen, Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss, born in Watertown, Conn. in 1826, made a fortune manufacturing guns and munitions for the North during the Civil War. He went to Europe in 1867, established a cartridge factory in the south of France...
Helen Kane grew fatter. Her infantilism grew less appropriate and profitable. Betty Boop remained babyish, alert, and so prosperous that her name has lately become almost as familiar in Manhattan courtrooms as that of Ella Wendel. Last month, Producer Max Fleischer whose firm makes Betty Boop cartoons, distributes them through Paramount, successfully sued a doll manufacturer for imitating Betty Boop. Last week it was Producer Fleischer and Paramount Publix Corp. who were sued by Helen Kane for $250,000 for copying her voice and mannerisms...