Word: forli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Rudolph Walgreen, 66, tightlipped, tight-minded founder of the U. S.'s second largest ($27,846,000) drugstore chain (508 stores in 37 States); in Chicago. In 1935, he removed his niece from the University of Chicago because he disapproved of the "Communistic theories" taught there, later...
When the British pound was at its prewar level (near par: $4.86), ?230 ($1,117.80) per ton would have been a good price for tin-equivalent (with the cost of freight and insurance) to about 48? per Ib. As the world's biggest user of tin, the U. S...
To date the U. S. public has seen a good many pictures of war-order planes lined up on fields, and shrouded bomber fuselages being loaded on freighters or falling into harbor mud. But aside from aircraft it has seen little concrete evidence of war orders. Last week (see cut...
Another Allied acquisition last week was Edgar Selden Bloom, longtime president of the $281,000,000 A. T. & T. subsidiary Western Electric (which makes 80-90% of all U. S. telephone equipment). Circumstances made it easy for the British Purchasing Commission to obtain the services of a front-rank U...
*His appointed successor: tall, careful Clarence Griffith Stoll, who at 56 has been vice president in charge of Western Electric's operations for eleven years.