Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little Justices Black and Frankfurter, alert and quick of eye, just able to peer over the back of the high mahogany bench; Murphy with a starched, far-off look; Jackson with his openwork, Dutch expression; Rutledge rocklike, Reed massive and heavy-jowled, Harold Burton with an air of avuncular interest. The court began to hand out what is promised by the marble figures on the wall: Divine Inspiration, Justice, Wisdom and Truth...
...take any action which would increase the price of our products." The A.F.L. agreed. In its official Monthly Survey it warned that wage demands could force employers into bankruptcy. Said A.F.L.: "Competition is back; prices can no longer be raised indiscriminately to cover higher costs. Business executives show new interest in cutting expenses. Production per man-hour is now rising sharply. These are all healthy developments which can bring business to its normal postwar balance...
Most of the heirs of old Claus-five women and three men, among them Playboy (five marriages) Adolph B. Spreckels Jr.-had shown little interest in the business. As they needed cash to continue living in their high & handsome manner, they preferred to liquidate the empire. Ambitious Charlie de Bretteville, a distant Spreckels kin and longtime employee of the company, was glad to help in the liquidation. He formed a new outfit called the Spreckels Companies, with the aid of Virgil Dardi, the shrewd boss of Blair Holdings Corp., a California investment firm, and Claus's grandchildren, sisters Alma...
...their $5¼ million, De Bretteville and friends got assets which they estimate at $10 million. Among them: ¶Half-interest in the Spreckels Sugar Co. with its three California beet-sugar plants (including the nation's largest), and its 14,000 acres of land, most of it in the rich Salinas Valley...
...Half-interest in the Pampanga Sugar Mills in the Philippines, which paid out $1,000,000 a year in dividends before the war, and will soon be completely restored from wartime damage by the Japanese...