Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outlook for chains last week was sufficiently beclouded to justify the term "crisis." Yet while the conventioneers were enroute for Chicago, Moody's Investors Service published an analysis of the outlook that cheered chain store men. "Just as there was a tendency toward an impatient anticipation of future growth, so there is now an almost complete loss of perspective," said Moody's. Descriptive of Moody's opinion on grocery chains were such paragraph headings as: Grocery Stocks no Longer Market Favorites; Long Expansion Broken by Period of Consolidation; Effect of Commodity Price Drop Temporary; Mixed Showing...
...this first zone there is an annual rainfall of 200 inches, and the dense tropical growth harbors the highly colored birds of the tropics. Sixty miles from the coast the scene changed, and they entered a tropical desert, with a completely different group of birds, and cactus and mesquite plants such as the traveller finds in the vicinity of Tuscon, Arizona...
Seated or standing on a level with the rest the "high tablers" accordingly would be obscured. The four inch dais merely compensates an equivocal detail, with a reasonable allowance for future growth...
Bror Gustave Dahlberg, 48, was born in Norway, soon was taken to St. Paul. About ten years ago he conceived of celotex, made from the fibre of sugarcane, as a substitute for lumber. He organized the company whose phenomenal growth in sales has added unto it many a subsidiary. Behind the expansion was Mr. Dahlberg, shrewd in matters of manufacturing and sales. Also, he is generally credited with being the architect of its financial structure. In the past decade he is said to have made...
...Dean said. "Formerly there were justices of the peace in every town to give advice and administer justice to parties they probably already knew personally. It was a perfectly possible system for a farming community. But during only a generation, problems of very recent date have arisen with the growth of our cities. And although municipal court systems, as in Chicago, have been established to meet them and have been partially successful, still they have been only partially so because (1) they work so well that people crowd them with big cases; (2) attorneys of bigger business bring...