Word: marche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in its 52 years, enterprising Dow Chemical Co. had no Dow at its helm. Dr. Willard Henry Dow, killed in a plane crash March 31, had succeeded his father as head of the business founded on a process for extracting bromine from the briny seas under Midland, Mich. Willard Dow had developed enough new products and processes to make the company the fourth biggest U.S. chemical manufacturer (600 products, $171 million gross and $21 million profit in 1948). Last week the directors picked two men to fill Willard Dow's shoes...
Retail Trade. Montgomery Ward & Co.'s iron-fisted Chairman Sewell Avery had bad news for stockholders: March sales were off 16.7% from 1948. Ward's biggest stockholder, Massachusetts Investors Trust (which owns 1.5% of the stock), had bad news for Avery: it would oppose his re-election as a director at next week's annual meeting. But chances were good that indestructible, 75-year-old Sewell Avery would be elected anyway...
Westerns and comedies are what moviegoers like best these days, according to Variety's March poll of box offices in 22 key U.S. cities. The leaders...
...Champion when it comes to realistic boxing scenes (TIME, April 11), Set-Up packs its own sharp, unexpected punches. The story, based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March, is fresh and honest. Its script, tense as a taut rope, neatly sidesteps the tintyped heroics of standard fight films and concentrates on the rotten underside of the ring and the characters that infest it. Especially pungent is the treatment of Paradise City, a typical overnight stop on the hayseed circuit. Rooting about in this neon-lighted netherworld-in down-at-heel bars, penny arcades, a ramshackle arena and its sweaty...
Devil in the Flesh. A moving, French-made look at the pleasures and perils of adolescent love; with Gérard Philipe and Micheline Presle (TIME, March...