Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from male stenography via International Correspondence Schools to head a firm of his own. His Business Promotion Corp. had 14 employes, some fairly profitable accounts with Chrysler and other automobile dealers who bought his sales ideas. But when Michigan auto workers went on strike dealers no longer felt like spending money. Soon business for Cliff Knoble dried up. Last week the consequences of Cliff Knoble's personal depression blossomed in a full-page advertisement in the Detroit Free Press...
...personally signed any agreement with Universal, denied flatly that any merger had taken place, claimed that he could not speak English and had not understood the terms of Universal's proposal. Universal Art promptly sued de Basil, only to find, in court, that de Basil no longer owned the scenery and production rights of the de Basil Ballet, but had sold them to a new organization, Educational Ballets Ltd., in order to escape his creditors...
...home, the Government of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye was forced to pull Japan's belt a little tighter to cope with the gnawing of war on her financial stomach. It decreed that some 47 types of articles (most important: cotton cloth and iron products), would no longer be produced for Japanese consumption. As soon as present stocks are exhausted, the populace will switch to staple fiber, synthetic materials...
...week (minimum) rate, which ranges from $1.25 to $11 per bag. Sample charge: a women's three-piece set, which sells for $45.85, rents for two weeks for $6. In between trips all bags are sterilized and reconditioned so that Masterson expects them to last longer than the 150 days he allowed in figuring depreciation. Although he stresses renting, he has apparently discovered an ingenious method of retailing luggage: so far 10% of his clients have decided to apply rental charges and deposits towards purchase of his bags...
...would then be cleared for sale of enough of United's holdings to reduce its control of any affiliate to less than 10%.* This would automatically change it by the terms of the Public Utility Act from a holding company to an investment trust and SEC no longer could rule its investment policy...