Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which has always proved a friend in need for Henry Kaiser, came through last week with a $34.4 million loan for Kaiser-Frazer. RFC said some of the cash would be used to tool up for a complete line of cars. (K-F now makes only four-door sedans.) Detroit also heard that about $5,000,000 would be used to turn out a car for under $1500 to challenge Ford, Plymouth and Chevrolet. Henry Kaiser, who has paid back $67.6 million of his federal loans, now owes the government $149.8 million...
...years. C. & S.'s low price (generally about $5 ) and large amount of common shares outstanding (more than 33 million) had made it a volume leader on the big board and a rich source of commissions for brokers. C. & S. preferred and common stockholders will get shares in four utility companies, with a listed total of only 20 million common shares...
...added spur was a four weeks' "Dress Yourself" contest. Salesmen got clothing prizes (ties, shirts, etc.) depending on what they sold, with the top prize a suit. At meetings once a week, salesmen could wear only what they had won. At the first meeting, some were barely decent. Last week. Joske's totted up results of the contest. In a month, $232,000 worth of Frigidaires had been sold-and 20 suits given out. Since the campaign started, Joske's has sold $750,000 worth, more than most big stores sell in a year...
...piddling $38,963 profit, it earned $866,000 in the last six months of that year, thanks partly to a big boost in mail pay over 1948. On the expectation of continued profits he is buying two new DC-6s and arranging for the lease of three more four-engined planes. When all are in service next year, National will have 14 four-engined aircraft in operation, competing with Rickenbacker's Constellations...
Testing Haul. This book, the second of a projected panel of four about the West, takes up where The Big Sky left off. Basically it is the familiar story of a wagon train moving west from Missouri to Oregon, but with differences that the jaded reader of historical fiction will be quick to appreciate. In all the body-torturing, spirit-testing haul from Independence to the Willamette, there is not one Indian attack, not a single war whoop or flaming arrow, not one hot-blooded, devil-may-care hero to turn in an impossible rescue, not even a big-breasted...