Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schenley Distillers made $1,716,847 in the third quarter, $4,782,795 for the nine months, a slightly better showing for the long period than in 1935. This year Schenley expanded capacity from 27,000,000 gal. of hard liquor annually...
Gillette Safety Razor made $1,187,360 in the third quarter, an improvement over the $1,122,518 shown in the same period of 1935, which was a record year for Gillette sales throughout the world...
Procter & Gamble, having sold more soap in the fiscal year through June than in any on record, made $6,629,564 in the quarter ended Sept. 30. compared to $3,604,505 in the same period...
Philip Morris, reporting for the fiscal six months through September, showed a profit of $1,700,507. nearly double its earnings for the corresponding period...
...Africa is the biography of Kalola, head of the once-powerful Snake Guild of the Nyamwesi tribe in British Tanganyika. Based on Kalola's story as he told it to Ethnologist Carnochan, it is written in a fictional narrative that robs it of authority, covers the period from Kalola's birth in 1856 to his death in 1933. Illustrated with photographs of charms and initiations, it is most interesting in its account of intertribal politics and in its account of Kalola's fighting in the war with German conquerors...