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...years (he reckoned that by that time the Third Reich would have fought and lost a war). His calculation was close. He spent ten years in concentration camps, most of them at Dachau of gas-chamber notoriety. There he ran a web of anti-Nazi conspiracy. He served one nine-month stretch in solitary, and ended another with a 28-day hunger strike that brought ruin to his digestive system...
...used it in his own personal letters to his graduates) and wanted his school to be the best in the U.S. As the years passed, his curriculum became more & more elaborate. He gave courses in business law, mathematics, and personal grooming. He had 48-week courses for secretaries, a nine-month course for college graduates, a three-year course for court reporters, including such specialities as congressional reporting and three-voice testimony. His only worry about the school was that it might decline after his death. To ensure its survival, he wanted it to become a permanent part...
After a series of talks in the fall of 1941 between University officials and labor leaders from all parts of the country, President Conant, in January 1942, approved a committee report calling for the establishment of a nine-month training program to be given annually in the field of union administration...
...Admiral Corp.. now recovering from the deep slump in TV7 sales, reported profits down 75% to $1,300,000-without providing for the new tax. ¶ Packard, benefiting from a 35% rise in sales, pulled up from a $1,400,000 loss to a $4,900,000 nine-month net. CJ The Texas Co. netted $45.5 million v. $40.6 million in the 1950 period. ¶ Standard OilCo. (N.J.), reporting for the first nine months, netted $403 million, up 47% from 1950 for a new record...
Bucking the Trend. Some companies succeeded in bucking the downward trend. In spite of building cutbacks, big Johns-Manville managed to boost its third-quarter net from $5,700,000 to $6,700,000. The container industry made a notable showing: Continental Can's nine-month net rose from $10.4 million to $12.2 million, Container Corp.'s from $7,300,000 to $11.2 million. Oils, with their favorable depletion allowance for taxes, were still gaining; Atlantic Refining's nine-month net rose from $27.8 million to $31.9 million. Big price rises in newsprint enabled St. Regis Paper...