Word: jobbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past six months David Colony has also organized St. Luke's Towel Co. (80 stockholder-employes), whose entire output is taken by a New York jobber; Hulby Hosiery Corp. (33 employe-owners) and Colony-Sharp Carpet Co. (75 workers), in whose organization the Rev. William Sharp of nearby St. Paul's joined...
...Governor seemed hazy on details, but it appeared that his pyramided sales tax* would have to be paid at least three times on a sack of flour, by manufacturer, jobber, retailer. Its other complexities he suggested when he proposed some exemptions : salaries, wages, professional fees (where it would be an additional income tax), interstate transactions, first sale by producer of agricultural and livestock products, street car fares up to 10?, street sales of newspapers, charitable and church transactions...
Last week Mr. Charles Harding Babb of Glendale, Calif., who is the world's busiest jobber in new and used sport, military and transport planes, decided to go into the heavy freight plane production business. That nobody ever had done so before was no deterrent to Charlie Babb...
Scheduled for trial next September is Madison Case No. 2 in which the Government accused virtually the same officers and companies of having violated the Sherman Act in another way-by demanding uniform jobber contracts and permitting jobbers only a carefully defined profit. Last week, considering the amount of time and money they had already spent and might still have to spend, 14 of the 22 accused oil companies and eleven of their executives* decided to plead nolo contender e. That meant they agreed to pay maximum fines and court costs amounting to $400,000-which, considering the cost...
...Bostonian directors of United Fruit Co. in 1932, thumped down on the long table in front of them enough stock certificates and proxies to give him control of the $187,000,000 company. Sam Zemurray got into the banana business in Mobile, Ala. in the early 1900s as a jobber, later peddled United's "ripes" in New Orleans. By 1930 United was glad to buy out his plantations and fleet for 300,000 shares of United stock. Sam Zemurray has been United's managing director in charge of operations since his 1932 coup. Last week he became head...