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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took the court for the Wimbledon singles finals last week, he nodded awkwardly toward the royal box, where Queen Mary sat watching, instead of bending in the customary bow. Then Schroeder devoted his full attention to stocky, left-handed Jaroslav Drobny of Czechoslovakia across the net...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winners at Wimbledon | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...Away." Last week TIME Correspondent Sam Welles toured South Korea and got a net impression of hope-hope in the midst of danger from within and without, from Right and from Left. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Temporary Roof | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Named with Tucker were Harold A. Karsten, alias Abraham Karatz, a promoter who once served a jail term for bank embezzlement conspiracy; former Investment Banker Floyd D. Cerf, whose firm had a net worth of only $87,352, yet made $2,500,000 on the sale of Tucker stock; and five former Tucker directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Torpedo's Wake | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...built the company, which has stores in every state, into the third biggest U.S. retail chain. Last year, only Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. sold more goods than J. C. Penney, which rang up a whopping $885 million gross and a $47.8 million net...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The 1,001 Partners | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...company, which had spent only $7,500 on advertising in 1939, splurged much of its $1,000,000 ad budget pushing the new "bold look." It ran sales up to a new high of $23.7 million (though, with higher costs, the net slipped to $1,000,000), second to Cluett, Peabody's (TIME, Oct. 11). Convinced that he has a winner in his new wrinkleproof collar, Phillips plans to push it with his biggest ($1,500,000) advertising campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Revolution in Shirts? | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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