Word: junes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, back from a trip around the East, had discovered that people "had an abiding faith in the soundness of our business economy." Last winter's decline of U.S. business had been interrupted. Manufacturers' orders for May and June had gone up 8%; job layoffs had dropped to their lowest rate since last November; the cost of living also dropped, if only an imperceptible...
Another congressional outcry died in an embarrassed whisper. After three months of investigation the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy was still unable to find any evidence of the "incredible mismanagement" Senator Bourke Hickenlooper had charged up to the Atomic Energy Commission and its chairman, David Lilienthal (TIME, June 6). In fact, the committee members had gotten so apathetic that Chairman Brien McMahon was unable to round up a quorum even to declare the hearings officially ended...
Last week, under able President William J. Murray Jr., McKesson passed a milestone. Announcing that sales for the year ending June 30 were a record $356.6 million, with a net $8,766,345, the company declared the first special dividend (25?) in its 116-year history...
Sorrowful Jones. Bob Hope in a fast-paced spoof of a Damon Runyon yarn (TIME, June...
...June 1913, on the tenth anniversary of his wedding, Gentleman-Farmer Sidney Tate lunched on Irish stew at his club and took stock of his marriage. He was a mild-mannered New York socialite who had come to Fort Penn, Pa. to marry rich, handsome, socially top-flight Grace Caldwell and had settled down to a provincial life of quiet opulence. His survey satisfied...