Word: periods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern industrial leaders are still clinging to the discarded and discredited wage theories and working conditions of the pre-War period. It is still believed and practiced that low rates of pay are synonymous with low labor costs. . . . The labor union has not been accepted as a permanent and inevitable institution in modern industrial life...
...steady United Drug prosperity came in the post-War deflation in which Mr. Liggett's company was threatened with insolvency. At this date, however, he had many a Rexall agent throughout the country and these Rexall agents, loyal, raised $1,500,000, helped him through the deflation period. Last year Drug, Inc. had a net income (11 months...
General Earnings. Estimators figured that the operating net income for all U. S. railroads for the first half of 1929 was at the rate of annual earnings of 6.11% of railroad valuation (by the roads), whereas the same figure for corresponding 1928 period was at the annual rate of 4.78% on valuation...
...great E. H. Harriman arrived in San Francisco in the wake of the fire and Mr. Shoup assisted him in relief work. So helpful was Mr. Shoup that there is a popular fable that he was a Harriman protege. It was, however, during the Southern Pacific's post-Harriman period that Mr. Shoup really rose to a prominent position, particularly through his management of the railroad's electric traction interurban lines and oil interests. He managed Pacific Oil Co. and Associated Oil Co., Southern Pacific subsidiaries, which later were sold to Standard Oil of California and Tidewater Oil, respectively...
...reward for conviction of persons assaulting workers of print shops where strikes are in progress. The sales curve that the advertising is designed to revise downward is the yearly chart of Chicago bombings which have risen to 67 this year, compared to 46 in the corresponding 1928 period...