Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost wholly dependent on the morale of its truck salesman, Jewel goes in heavily for house organs, conventions, picnics and paternalism. Few years ago it moved its offices and main plant 40 miles out of Chicago to Barrington, Ill. chiefly to provide better living and working conditions for employes. The nautical influence of its top executives is evident in hotly competitive selling groups, organized as "pirate crews" with "captains," "buccaneers," "able seamen" and a mysterious figure at headquarters called...
When the plant is finished three 750-h.p. motors will drive 400,000 cu. ft. of dried air, chilled to 35°, down the shaft every minute. It is expected that temperature will be reduced 8 to 12° in the main shaft, 5 to 7° in the branch workings, and the dry air will soak up 1,500 gal. of water every hour. Initial cost...
...hand at matchmaking if nothing comes of August's moon. Though Graham-Paige broke even last year, it would have as much to gain as to lose by merging. As for companies which have already gone to the wall like Franklin and Willys, merger is their main hope...
Railroadmen were cheered last week, however, by what they took to be White House recognition of their plight. Having lately spent a week-end with President Roosevelt aboard the Sequoia, Editor Raymond Moley led off his main editorial in last week's issue of Today: "No friend of the New Deal is likely to grow enthusiastic over the progress of its railroad policies." And after listing all the railroad's woes, Editor Moley concluded: "There are many complaints from business, these days, that hardly stand examination. But these of the railroads are unquestionably an exception. . . . The Administration has a railroad...
Nearly as silent as, and similar in technique to, a modern Charlie Chaplin film, Extase gets its effects with four main characters, Eva, the Husband, the Lover and the Father. The father breeds horses...