Word: ooo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manufacturer of baseball equipment, to build a ball park and buy a ball team. The Athletics, with Mack as manager, played their first game in 1901, won their first pennant in 1902, their second in 1905. But Manager Mack's first great team - with the famed "$100,-ooo infield" of Frank Baker. Jack Barry, Eddie Collins, Stuffy Mclnnis-was not assembled until 1910. In five years they breezed through four American League pennants, three world championships. In 1914 Philip Ball, late owner of the St. Louis Browns, Oilman Harry F. Sinclair and the Ward Baking Co. backed the organization...
...Beech-Nut Packing ("Everything Beech-Nut but the Eggs") showed $1,44°r ooo for the first half compared to $1,203,-ooo in the same six months of 1936 (both figures before Federal taxes). C, "Sales have continuously risen ^each twelve-month period for four years," de- clared General Foods Corp.'s Colby Chester in announcing half-year profits of 18,000, a slight gain over the same period of last year...
...would express themselves about what they saw. As a matter of fact nothing has been "done for Wales." The Government do not claim to have brought about the pick-up in Welsh coal exports which has reduced the registered unemployed figure to 33,000, increased the employed to 32,-ooo. The price of coal still averages about $4.00 per ton, and the average South Wales employed miner still earns about $2.40 daily...
...Reflecting company estimates of a potential reserve of at least 100,000,-ooo bbl. in its new field, Barnsdall stock in six weeks was moved up from $20 to $34 per share. C In ancient Teheran, capital of Iran (Persia), word leaked out that Seaboard Oil Co. had acquired exploration and exploitation rights to 180,000 sq. mi. of Iranian territory...
...Raising of about $620,000,000 of annual revenue to pay for AAA's substitute and the Bonus, plus about $173,000,-ooo per year for three years to compensate the Treasury for invalidated processing taxes...