Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buyers on the Sideline. "Bert Howe, the barber, has a single house that he has cut up into four apartments, and rents three of them. He owns the place, worth about $12,000, and would like to buy some other property. 'I think there's a hell of a depression coming,' he said, tamping tobacco into his pipe. 'Right now I wouldn't buy a chickenhouse. I'm put and I'm staying put. I lived through the other depression and saw what happened.' Mrs. Howe said she would like to have...
...Like a nation preparing for war, the mighty Du Pont empire had been carefully preparing its defenses and enlisting allies for a momentous struggle to keep its empire intact. Only two weeks ago, it split its high-priced stock ($179), thus bringing its price down to $45 so that smaller investors could buy it, and, in effect, become Du Pont's allies. Last week, the expected assault began. Attorney General Tom Clark filed an antitrust suit in Chicago's Federal Court to break the $1,585,000,000 Du Pont holdings into at least four pieces...
Peddling war plants, fishhooks, girdles and bulldozers, WAA had a peak of 58,795 workers, more than 100 offices. WAA still has on its books $1.8 billion in property, mostly real estate. Like other Washington bureaus which have outlived their usefulness, WAA will not die completely. Most of its 2,550 employees will be transferred for close-out bookkeeping chores to the new General Services Administration...
...Hotel last week trooped 600 secretaries of U.S. businessmen, to attend the National Secretaries Association's annual convention. Most of them had passed the age when they daydreamed about marrying the boss. They concentrated on such serious business as getting a recognized status as "certified professional secretaries," just like the accountants...
...Manhattan, Rootes Motors, Inc. rented out its British-made Hillman autos for as long as two weeks with gas and oil free (minimum weekly charge: $65) and promised to deduct rental payments if the renter bought the car ($1,795). Like other British automakers, Rootes also offered tourists the chance to pay for a car in the U.S., pick it up and drive it in England this summer, and have it shipped back free of charge...