Word: obtaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mail Order. Another pair of high earn ers were Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward. Both mail-order houses now obtain 50 to 60% of their sales as department stores. Although department store sales in general are running barely ahead of last year, chain groceries about 5% higher, Sears and Montgomery Ward were 20% ahead of 1938 in April. On this increase in volume, Sears' Chairman Robert E. Wood (who plays along with the New Deal) estimates his company will more than double the $7,000,000 profits earned in the 1938 first quarter; Montgomery Ward's Chairman Sewell...
...years ago Designer Stafford tried to interest the Defense Ministry in civilian camouflage but met indifference. Later, the Government perked up its ears. Since September Mr. Stafford and his artists have busied themselves developing techniques for "painting out" vulnerable buildings. Their first step is to obtain aerial photographs of all aspects of a building and to study the surrounding countryside. Then the expert camouflagers build and camouflage a scale model before the actual building is tackled...
...small way. In the summer of 1929 Drexel invited the Birds to a summer camp with no telephone. While they were there, Drexel told Bird's secretary that her employer wanted her to arrange a $10,000 loan from the bank. She used her power of attorney to obtain it and Drexel bought $100,000 worth of stock on margin in Bird's name. Before Bird could extricate himself, the crash had come and he was short $239,000. He borrowed that amount from a friend...
Open to all Harvard and Radcliffe students, one of the stated aims of the organization is to investigate "the relationship of art to society." Members, who have held a total of six meetings to date, will attempt to obtain a studio-workshop...
...announced last week by Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. The process, sponsored and financed by Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., involves "hanging" the meat so that its enzymes may weaken and break-down the fibres and connective tissues that make meat tough. Ordinarily such hanging (to obtain a few very choice steaks) requires four to eight weeks under expensive cold-storage conditions. In the Mellon-Kroger process it is done in a few days at a temperature of 60°, a relative humidity of 90%. Molds and bacteria, which would spoil such warm, damp meat if left...