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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCoy standards, there was too much talk and not anywhere near enough damage. But nobody could accuse Henry Kaiser and Republic Steel's President Charles M. White of not trying. Kaiser, in a surprise deal with War Assets Administrator Jess Larson, had snatched the Government's $28 million Cleveland blast furnace from under White's nose (TIME, Aug. 30); last week, when Senator Kenneth Wherry's Small Business Committee looked into that deal, the feud was out in the open...
...grossing $26 million a year, Leonard's is neck & neck with Houston's Foley's, Texas' most spectacular retail outlet. Next year Leonard's hopes to leave Foley's far behind. Says brother Marvin: "A store must always grow, or else it's going to shrink...
Tire men happily admitted that they had badly misjudged demand. With over 4,000,000 cars and trucks coming off assembly lines this year, they now thought they could sell 80 million tires in the next twelve months. That would keep production one-fourth above the prewar level well into...
...Wells Co. has the combination to a safe packed with black gold. It specializes in getting oil from wells that have run dry. By literally shooting out the oil with a gadget called a gun perforator, Lane-Wells has increased the yield of U.S. wells by an estimated $200 million. Last week, with demand for oil at a peak, the company was booming as never before. For five consecutive months, it has grossed more than $1,000,000 a month. With a second-quarter net of $1,143,200, Lane-Wells was earning around $6 a share, about four times...
...second is much older, and inclined to be mulish; that is my block of Southern states . . . And then my third horse, a nervous and skittish steed which I seldom dare mention by name. You will consider my naming it confidential, please? . . . My Roman Catholic charger. There are twenty million Catholics in this country, and the great bulk of them think and vote as their Church advises...