Word: net
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bottles: The Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Current assets, $18,100,000: 17 plants throughout the U. S. the largest being in Toledo: world's largest manufacturer of bottles. 1928 net: $4,000,000. Chief competitor: none...
...cellar and the next-to-top story. Meanwhile the masticating jaws of the fans in the ball park and of others all over the world never stopped supplying Mr. Wrigley with a vast income. During the first six months of this year the Wrigley Co. (chewing gum) had net earnings of $5,211,990, more than $300,000 more than the net income of the first six months of 1928 when the total annual net earnings were $11,068,618 or $6.15 a share. His business, still increasing, has tripled since 1920. He spends an average...
...search for an educational panacea has brought forth such a variety of proposed cures that it is not to be wondered if the net result to the patient is little more than a confused state of mind. A galaxy of remedies ranging all the way from the Micklejohn experiment at Wisconsin to the House Plan at Yale and Harvard presents and array broad enough to convince the layman that all the best authorities are not agreed even to the point of diagnosis. But perhaps in the most recent recommendation -- that of Professor Henderson of Yale--there is a new note...
...Goods. In 1872 Lyman Bloomingdale, an assembler of hoop skirts, was left jobless by fashion changes. He opened a dry goods store, recorded net sales of $3.63 the first day. In 1928 Bloomingdale Bros. (Manhattan) reached the net sales total of $23,000,000. Last week it finally joined a long-planned department store merger which will consolidate it with Abraham & Straus (Brooklyn-Started in 1865 by Abraham Abraham, who was joined in 1893 by Isidor Straus, chinaware merchant), William Filene's Sons Co. (Boston-Headed by William E. Filene who unsuccessfully sought injunctions to prohibit large stockholders, including...
...talismanic image of a small dog sitting up, which he says was given to him by "a great lady of Czechoslovakia." Having left his dog on the sidelines, he began the finals last week in his customary way of drawing Richards, the best volleyer in the world, to the net so that he could win points by passing him. For two sets Richards, pale and imperturbable, saw the ball go by again and again to fall on baselines where he could not reach it and he saw his own apparently ungettable shots come back to him as steadily as though...