Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collects old English silver, dislikes publicity, has a daughter married to Barron Collier Jr. and is one of the world's foremost authorities on corporate finance and taxation. In Manhattan last week Mr. May attended a dinner celebrating his silver jubilee as senior partner of the potent accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse & Co. In Washington last week Mr. May, who was a Wartime adviser at the Treasury Department, appeared before the Senate Finance Committee as a disinterested citizen, presented the best-reasoned and most effective attack yet made on the Revenue Bill...
...Sherriff's Journey's End, which in 1928 sold 100,000 copies, put the fledgling firm on its financial feet. Once established, Publisher Gollancz astounded his competitors with the vigor of his advertising, revolutionized England's literary publicity with boldfaced, importunate copy. No slouch on the mechanical side of the business, Publisher Gollancz took a lesson from German Tauchnitz, standardized the binding and typography of his product. Since the world fell on troubled times, he has had the wit to add to his large general list a lively line of pink political writings which have made...
...horseback every morning before going to work. He boasts that "Monsanto's net contribution to ... unemployment . . . was nil," since he never laid off a man during Depression, has twice as many people working for him now as in 1931. Satisfied, too, is Monsanto's Queeny that the firm's market is so diversified that no more than about 10% of Monsanto's gross profit comes from any one of the more than 300 chemicals it manufactures...
...next year Phog entered the University and immediately laid a firm hand, as student coach, on its basketball destinies. In the next 26 years he produced 20 conference championships, with only occasional interruptions while he coached championship teams at Baker University and Missouri State Teachers College...
...current garbled form, Morgenthau's attempts to defend the bill have been tragic. Committee hearings disclosed first-that. Treasury experts had made absolutely no accurate estimates of the revenue available under the new taxes; second-that in practice the taxes would favor big corporations against the smaller firms; third-that the measure would increase the difficulties for firms with impaired capital and would be disastrous to the small, growing firm; fourth-that there were so many loopholes in the bill that a John Davis could drive the wooden horse of Troy through its provisions...