Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is only one more example of young (47) Jay C.'s industrial nonconformism. From the Hormel plant at Austin, Minn., he upset the packing industry with canned whole ham, spiced ham, canned whole chicken, beef stock soups and, lately, Spam (canned pork for making spam-wiches, etc.). There...
Different was the predicament of New York's $157,000,000 World of Tomorrow. Three weeks from closing time, $436,670 of its current liabilities was owed to banks, $500,000 to contractors, another $500,000 immediately due to bondholders, and bills payable topped receivables by $500,000. To...
For that reason the impeccable Grover Aloysius Whalen last week tiptoed around the edges of the battlegrounds of Europe, drumming up trade for the 1940 edition of his World of Tomorrow. From Rome this sentimental journeyman reported: "Government officials are favorably inclined." Elsewhere, he intimated, nations had received him most...
To Banker Gibson this was such good news that he loosed the floodgates. He ruled that for the remainder of the 1939 Fair (except weekends & holidays) babies in arms or in carriages would be admitted without paying 25? admission. ("Of course," one of Banker Gibson's assistants hastily added...
For the Majority. Parkes's closely thought-out proposals rest on this conclusion and on the equally demonstrable one that "the kind of system which prevailed in America before 1929 is unworkable. . . ." His alternative is laissez-faire, the principle of the free, competitive market under the law that Jefferson...