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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kilowatt for electricity. The birth rate is too low, there being 3.1 children to a Thermopolis family. We have many professional women but none of Dr. Thorndike's suggested doctors or clergy. We have four card parlors, eight saloons, and the world's largest hot springs in addition to other cities' General Goodness...
...January 1935 Marshall Field & Co. had the largest drygoods business in the world, the largest building in the world (Chicago's Merchandise Mart for trade exhibitions), the second biggest department store in the world and one of the biggest drygoods wholesale businesses in the U. S. It also had a reputation sacrosanct in Chicago and gilt-edged the world around. Nonetheless, in the previous four years it had lost $13,200,000 and the directors were so worried that they hired a business analyst named James O. Mc-Kinsey to study the matter. Hulking, robust J. O. McKinsey...
...Princeton Triangle Club is primarily a social institution whose largest purpose is to give the more talented members of Cottage Club, Cap and Gown and Tiger Inn a 3,000-mile booze bust around the country at Christmastime. Not all Triangle show boys are out exclusively for a good time, however, and it is this type which goes out into the cold world and becomes actors, singers and directors like James Stuart, Joshua Logan, Ned Wever, Frank Chapman, Phillips Holmes, Myron McCormick, Bretaigne Windust, Jose Ferrer. These have created in the Triangle Club a small but sound tradition of showmanship...
...equipped with laboratory facilities, employs more than 200 people at Bristol including six graduate pharmaceutical chemists and other trained assistants. Dr. Massengill holds an M. D. degree, and is directly in charge of the plant. This plant manufactures drugs for human consumption which are used by many of the largest and best hospitals and physicians throughout the country. Never before has this company been subjected to any serious criticism of its products. Dr. Massengill is a man who enjoys an enviable reputation for his honesty, his business judgment and his all-round good citizenship...
...Another famed California case decided last week was the dispute over reorganizing Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., largest on the West Coast, which became technically if not commercially insolvent last year when reserve requirements were upped $23,000,000 (TIME. Aug. 24). Last week the California Supreme Court upheld the reorganization plan of California Insurance Commissioner Samuel Carpenter...