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Word: inc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice President and Treasurer Fred A. Powdrell of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. has had a year to demonstrate his highly rated ability and President George Bain Everitt has been working hard. For the June quarter MW earned $407,000 (1? a share) against a $185,000 deficit in the same period last year. Six months figures showed a loss of $1,375,000 against the $2,503,000 deficit in the first half of 1930. The company's best business is, of course, after harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cross-Section | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...year ago Loft, Inc. lost $260,000 during the half. Since then its new management, under jut-jawed Charles G. Guth, has taken it in hand. The purity of Loft's candies has been strongly advertised, and the value of its $1 dinner. For this half it earned $219,000. The Waldorf System, Inc. (restaurant subsidiary) earned $604,000 compared with $592,000. Bickford's chain showed $372,000 against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cross-Section | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...women must have bought more clothing for Lane Bryant, Inc., specialist in coverings for corpulent bodies, earned $181,000 for the six months ending May 31 against a $295,000 profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cross-Section | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...Bust Trust," or Associated Apparel Industries, Inc. (corsets, brassieres, girdles, underwear) lost $132,000 against profits of $632,000 for six months ending May 31, despite a favorable trend in figure fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cross-Section | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...Your management feels that you will find this action . . . very gratifying." So last week did Congoleum-Nairn Inc. comment upon its 25? dividend, the first payment since 1925. Although Congoleum earned $607,000 against $705,000, its management has paid great attention to its internal condition and now it has current assets 33 times greater than current liabilities, can well afford to be generous. Courageous, the management also bought 251,026 shares of the company's own stock for retirement during the Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cross-Section | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

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