Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spending $3,263,000 between July 1926 and July 1927, the U. S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce (stated its Director Julius Klein in his annual report last week) helped 2,500,000 firms and individuals and brought them $500,000,000 in additional profits. A U. S. maker of lubricants thus secured $300,000 new business in Berlin, a San Francisco fruit firm $100,000 in Buenos Aires; an electric car manufacturer $1,000,000 in Madrid; a Manhattan novelty house $300,000 in Montreal; a motor car maker $300,000 in Rome...
Minnesota blacksmith's son, Iowa farm boy, teacher-lawyer, able attorney, Spanish-War officer,* son-in-law of George Mortimer Pullman (sleeping cars), thrice a Congressman (1906-11), firm and constructive Governor,† grand-scale agriculturalist-Mr. Lowden is a pleasant, capable, 66-year-old city-man-turned-squire who stands looking at the Presidential chair with ambitious interest but with a gentlemanly restraint. He would not think of trying to climb up and sit in the chair without a genuine invitation...
...Raskob said at last week's banquet: "In 1926 the retail value of automobiles, trucks and parts produced is estimated at $6,000,000,000." Only 40% was paid in cash, the balance by monthly installments. General Motors, Mr. Raskob's firm, believed that the installment system was good. However, said he: "If we were wrong we wanted to know it. If we were on fundamentally solid economic ground we wanted to know that also. All agreed that no opinion would tend to give a greater sense of security than that of Professor Seligman...
...given to Pathe and to the Harvard savants in the production and disposition of the anthropological films. Several expeditions are being planned by the University for the purpose of collecting additional anthropological materials, and cameramen to take moving pictures of these expeditions will be supplied by the moving picture firm...
...Strawn, senior partner of the firm of Winston, Strawn, and Shaw of Chicago, is one of the outstanding men in the legal profession. His subject at tonight's meeting, open to all members of the Law School, will be "Legal Education from the Point of View of a Practitioner...