Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pickle prospects are good. Probable gross: slightly better than 1938's $40,000,000. Pressing problems for this year are a shortage of dills (a reaction from last year's overselling of the dill market) and a dearth of one-bite pickles. Last year's summer rains played hob with this year's little fellows. Cucumbers grew overnight from midgets to larger sizes before they could be picked. This year's prospects (for next year's pickles) are better...
Largest pickle packer in the business is Heinz, with an estimated gross between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 a year. Heinz policy keeps it out of the trade association but it works closely with N. P. P. A. whose biggest members are Widlar Food Products (Standard Brands), Libby, Mc-Neill & Libby and Squire Dingee. Biggest pickle States today are Wisconsin and Michigan but the oldest is New York where Dutch burghers packed dills not many years after Henry Hudson debarked from the Half Moon...
...reorganization in 1936) to Freeport Texas. Board chairman is socialite John Hay Whitney who is only 34. Between them they operate the second largest sulphur company in the world (the largest: Texas Gulf Sulphur), which supplies some 27% of the world's supply of brimstone sulphur. Last year gross sales were $10,050,355. With its financial socks pulled up, Freeport Sulphur paid dividends of $2 on 796,380 shares of common stock, has paid a total of 50? in the first half...
Representative Martin Smith of Washington waved aloft $5,400,000,000 as the first year's yield from a 2% retail sales tax and 2% gross revenue tax on producers, wholesalers, etc., to be divided among 8,000,000 non-working pensioners over 60 who would spend $56.26 each per month...
Between 1921 and 1928 Auto-Ordnance, doing a small, tidy business, sold more than 6,000 Thompsons for a gross of $1,330,000. In 1928, however, death came to Thomas Fortune Ryan. Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. became executor, Elder Statesman Elihu Root the lawyer, of the $135,000,000 Ryan estate. In kindly Pacifist Root's scheme of things, the sale of man-killers had no place. Quietly he put Auto-Ordnance on the shelf. The Thompsons, father and son, had done a good selling job, were on the way to making it better, but under...