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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...date the choristers have given 61 concerts at up to $1,500 an appearance, traveling in their own $19,000 bus, from which they once serenaded an astonished chain gang in Georgia. Last week Messrs. Settle & Kramer announced what they were going to do with their net at the end of this season and henceforth. They will provide 20 college scholarships for colored youngsters all over the U. S., to be competed for by examinations in high schools. They also announced that out of the many nibbles they have had they will choose a sponsor to help them...
Since its founding in 1920, I. T. & T. has installed nearly 1,000,000 telephones in ten foreign countries. But wars and currency fluctuations have kept it in hot water most of the time. In 1937 the company netted $10,236,000. Last year's net was down to $4.894.000. Reason: I. T. & T. took a $1,537,000 loss on foreign exchange, got nothing at all from its German, Polish. Spanish subsidiaries. Not since 1935, when the Spanish companies earned $3,234,000, have I. T. & T. stockholders made a penny from Spain. And Franco insists on keeping...
...Fish Caught. Seven thousand men and 3,500 women were interned as enemy aliens. The net thrown out for fifth columnists and quislings brought in some bigger fish, including Leader Sir Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Fascists; Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, Conservative M. P. and ardent Hitlerite; onetime M. P. John Beckett, militant pacifist and nuisance (he once tried to steal the Speaker's mace in the House of Commons); Germany's master spy and saboteur in World War I, Captain Franz von Rintelen...
...handful of the 36 men who run the $858,000,000 industrial empire of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., last week's gathering in the Wilmington, Del. board room was just another directors' meeting. Their 138-year-old firm had had a good year: 1939 net $93,219,000, an all-time high. Declaration of a quarterly dividend, other routine matters, were quickly dispatched. A secretary rose and began reading from some slips of paper...
This year Disston expects to come close to its 1929 sales record: $12,000,000 (about two-thirds from saws). With a net worth of about $8,500,000, Disston does not tell its profits, is owned lock-stock-&-barrel by the Disston family, who are hardy, friendly, prolific. Six Disstons work for the company today. Oldest is Board Chairman Henry (grandson of Founder Henry), who presides over board meetings from his apartment at Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford. Head of purchasing is sporty William Dunlop Disston, 52, whose son William, now in the shops, is the first fourth-generation...