Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provinces where they had won (TIME, April 12 et ante). Last week His Majesty's Government were glad they had replied to this political boycott by Gandhi's Indian National Congress by simply sitting tight. It was the original contention of Sir Samuel Hoare, chief maker of India's new Constitution when he was Secretary of State for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante), that no matter how hard Indians at first kicked against its traces they would end by settling down, pulling in harness. Last week the Congress Party executive committee, chairmanned by Party President...
...native workers in 40 out of 69 burlap mills went on strike. Coaxed back to work in May, they are still sore, may strike again this summer. Majority of these mills are British, but one of the largest and most elaborate belongs to the big U. S. jute twine maker, Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, whose main plant is at Ludlow, Mass. This company, which has been making jute products since the Civil War, now has assets of $25,700,000 and last year made a profit of $1,918,000. In the U. S. jute is one of the big four...
...golf balls were sold in the U. S. at a retail price of $9 a doz., wholesale of $5.60. To help finance its services, most of which are offered free, PGA sells golf balls through its members. The Golf Ball Manufacturers' Association includes many top-rank U. S. makers of sporting goods* and, according to the FTC, its members own or control almost every U. S. golf ball factory. Each member company in the association makes a number of balls stamped PGA which are usually of higher quality than balls bearing other names. In its complaint the FTC charged...
...tiny Christ Church at Christiana Hundred, Del. next week, retired Powder-maker Eugene du Pont will give in marriage his eldest daughter Ethel to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., third son and namesake of the U. S. President. To hundreds of thousands of U. S. citizens for whom the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's nuptials were more notorious than romantic, the union of Ethel du Pont and Franklin Roosevelt is Wedding-of-the-Year. No two families figure more prominently in the nation's industrial and political history. And no handsomer couple is likely to exchange vows anywhere...
Last September Louis Breguet, prominent French aircraft maker, returned from Moscow to announce: "With ten times as many workers as has France, the Soviet factories are producing 20 times as many airplanes, motors and accessories as in France. I should estimate that there are 200,000 men employed in the two laboratories, the five aero-motor factories and the four principal aircraft factories. . . . Annual production of fully equipped airplanes is of the order of 5,000. . . . The technique is not very modern but it is to the point. The works directors are engineers of incontestable merit...