Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when freight trains averaged 40 cars in length, crew casualties numbered 36,238, but in 1935 with train length up to 46 cars casualties were down to 5,996. The Duluth, Missabe & Northern R.R. in Minnesota operated almost 7,000 trains of more than 70 cars over a period in which not a man was killed, a performance for which the D. M. & N. received the Harriman Silver Medal Award...
...Band Instrument Manufacturers calculated that more than 2,000,000 children now play in school bands. Accordion makers reported a record turnover of 120,000 instruments in the last twelvemonth. But pianomen, reporting that the sales of 49,595 pianos through June were 33% higher than for the corresponding period last year, were most optimistic. They expected to sell 80,000 more by the end of the year, a gain of 500% over rock bottom 1932. Some pianomen thought this increase was traceable to more attractive "streamlined" cabinets, others to the general revival of installment selling. But all were sure...
...three months through June GM's sales were $500,000,000, some $34,000,000 more than in the same period last year. Yet earnings were down from $88.000.000 to $65,000,000. For the six months GM sales were also up but profits again were down, from $140,000,000 in the first half of 1936 to $110,000.000 in the first half of 1937. Higher material costs accounted for part of GM's unfavorable showing but Labor was blamed for the rest. The GM report, in the words of Financial Editor Carlton A. Shively...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Freeport Sulphur Co. showed $1,279,000 for the half, compared to $1,014,000 in the same period a year ago. Not only a sulphur company is Freeport: near Santiago, Cuba it is now producing 10,000 tons of 'manganese per month. After the manganese tariff was halved following the signing of the reciprocal trade pact with Brazil, a big manganese producer, Freeport's Cuban subsidiary languished until prices rose and another $500,000 was invested in new equipment. This year for the first time since 1934 Freeport's Cuban...
...increase in sales in the first six months with profits up from $1,474,000 to $2,811,000.- C, Sharing the paperboard industry s record business in the first half of 1937. Walter Paul Paepcke's Container Corp. made more money than in any six-month period in the company's history. After the spring peak the paperboard business slumped badly, is currently in the doldrums...