Word: overly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither firm has found profit sharing unprofitable. G. E.'s nine months' net was $25,022,631 (up 42.5% over 1938). Westinghouse's earnings were up 46% over last year to $9,069,810.
For 17 years big Melville Shoe Corp. (No. 1 U. S. shoe retailer; sales: 10,000,000 pairs of shoes, 12,000,000 pairs of socks) and J. F. McElwain Co., Nashua, N. H., shoemaker, have got along fine. The arrangement between them has been that Melville contracts to take...
Forced to import some 70,000,000 hides (15% of its cattle hides, 25% of its calf, 50% of its sheep, all of its goat skins) a year, the industry has seen hide prices jump 10 to 30% since the advent of World War II. But shoe prices are only...
To the U. S. aircraft industry, Canadian Associated's orders, on the book and in prospect, would be nothing to go into a barrel roll over. (Seven U. S. builders have backlogs of over $20,000,000 each; two, over $60,000,000 each.) But the Canadian industry probably...
When a Frenchman, over his hot brioches and chocolate, unfolds his morning paper to stare at gaping columns of white space, he shrugs and murmurs philosophically : "Anastasie!" A haggard, black-gowned, crotchety old maid, armed with an immense pair of shears, Anastasie is a characteristic creation of Gallic wit. She...