Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ascertainable facts": Before 1900 Engineer Herbert Hoover had saved not more than $10,000. That year's transfer of Chinese coal mines to a London syndicate of which he was the agent profited him $150,000, started him out as a capitalist. A junior partnership in the London firm of Bewick, Moreing & Co., mine managers and promoters, gave him about $50,000 per year. In 1902 the dishonesty of another junior partner cost him about $165,000, wiped out his reserves, set him back two years. As a senior Bewick, Moreing partner he made $125,000 per year...
Besides running the union. President Kaplan heads a firm which sells projection equipment. The wise theatre owner knows that by patronizing the Kaplan firm he will have no labor troubles in his cinema house...
Died. Louis Maurer, 100, oldtime artist, last surviving member of the famed print firm, Currier & Ives; of old age; in Manhattan...
...President Swift went to no college, began work in the Stock Yards at an early age. He became a cattle-buyer, was made vice president of Swift & Co. in 1909, vice chairman in 1931. He is married to Claire Dux, soprano. Last week the price of hogs was still firm after its recent rise (TIME, July 11), cattle prices were beginning to follow upward...
World's Work lived to be 32, a fairly ripe age for a magazine. It was founded by the late Walter Hines Page, then a partner in the publishing firm of Doubleday Page, who edited it from 1900 until 1913 when he was appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James. He was succeeded by his son Arthur Wilson Page, now vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and successively by Carl Chandlee Dickey, Barton Wood Currie (previously editor of Ladies' Home Journal), Russell Doubleday, Alan C. Collins...