Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official sales figures have always been a dark secret. American Can got an injunction against SEC to prevent release of its old data but finally capitulated in its 1936 report, out last fortnight. Last week National Can, a subsidiary of McKeesport Tin Plate and No. 3 U. S. can maker, also revealed its sales. Though Continental's report still omitted the vital figures, it was now possible to fill in most of the hitherto sketchy can picture. Total can production amounted to some $375,000,000. American Can's share was $185,000,000, just under one-half...
...this poor year the can makers unanimously blamed the Robinson-Patman Act, which forced revision of their contracts with can users. For once that much-debated measure brought lower instead of higher prices to consumers. Since the law tends to make big and little customers pay the same prices, the general rule is to bring quotations in line by boosting prices to the big customers. In the can business, where the big customers are very big, this rule apparently could not be applied. It is too easy for the big canners to make their own cans, as Heinz and Phillips...
Elopement Revealed. Cranston ("Boo") Paschall, 24, student aviator, stepson of Seattle's Airplane-Maker William Edward Boeing; and Marguerite Simanek. 26, red-haired United Air Lines stewardess; to Carson City...
...Corp. with knighthood for its musical director, Dr. Adrian Cedric Boult; and among the 53 others knighted were George VI's private secretary, Major the Hon. Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, and Nigel Leslie Campbell, principal banking trustee for the $10,000,000 philanthropic fund just given by Motor Maker Lord Nuffield to succor Britain's unemployed and honor Stanley Baldwin for his handling of the Constitutional Crisis (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week Nuffield got nothing, and the peerages strongly predicted in London for Cunard White Star Board Chairman Sir Percy Elly Bates, apropos the Queen Mary, and Home...
...Christiane Delyne, the bourgeols Miss who captures the duke from the stately lady, and then tries to get her steel man too, and who ogles and languishes in the voluptuous fashion burlesqued by Miss West. But Leon Belieres endears himself to a new audience as the roly-poly chocolate-maker, the ambitious father of the duke-catcher, whose garrulity and faux pas are always impairing his daughter's chances...