Word: periodical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...doubt that the margin of profit was narrowing. Chrysler Corp., in spite of its five-week strike last spring. sold 629,706 cars and trucks in the first six months of 1937. a record; It took in $409,000,000 compared with $358,000.000 in the same period last year. Yet profits were down from $29.000.000 to $27,000,000. Even in the June quarter when Chrysler had little to charge off to strikes, the company's profit margin showed a sharp drop, from 19.8% in 1930 to 14.7% in 1937. Labor and material might be rising...
...After deducting some $2,253,000 as the employes' share of first-half earnings, General Electric Co. reported six-month profits of $26,293,000, compared to $16,592,000 in the same period last year. Sales were up from...
...first half of last year the figure was $6,000,000. C. Helped by modernistic chewing-gum advertising designed by Artist Otis Shepard, William Wrigley Jr. Co. showed profits of $4,354,000 for the first half of 193?-compared to $3,428,000 in the same period of last year...
...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...
Wisconsin's new law offers a sort of personal receivership to debtors earning less than $2,400 a year. By applying to the District Court the debtor may protect himself from garnishee actions for a period of two years during which a referee designated by the court supervises paying off his bills in installments, sees to it that he is allowed enough of his earnings to feed and care for his dependents...