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...adventure but more than ardent Laborites think it should; it also prints more stories about Labor and the trade unions than readers of the rival Daily Mail and Express want to labor through. Though duller than its Fleet Street rivals, the Herald is London's third largest daily paper, and the only one which steadily supports Labor...
Optimist: Maybe this is the longest upward movement ever known. Why shouldn't it be? It has also covered by far the largest war in history. Is it really conceivable that all the damage and dislocation caused by the war could be put right in less than three years from...
...resignation reduced F. C. & B.'s commissions by about $1,800,000 a year, 20% of its total volume. Never before had any agency voluntarily given up such a fat account (one of the twelve largest in the U.S.). Foote's reasons were the same, and just as general, as those given a week before by George Washington Hill Jr. when he quit as American Tobacco's $230,000-a-year vice president in charge of advertising (TIME, March 29). Like Hill, Foote said he had resigned because of "general disagreement over policies...
...ruling patriarch of Hawaii's potent Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., combined the two companies in a $25 million merger. As a result, the new company, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd., with 25,454 acres of cane land and a yearly output of 135,000 tons of sugar, becomes the largest plantation on the islands...
...third largest of the Houses, Winthrop will have between 35 and 40 singles when all the rooms are "deconverted." This, as well as the sturdy, sound absorbing walls, should attract lovers of quiet and solitude to the Puritan roost. A possible disadvantage is that there are few showers, most of the rooms having only bathtubs...