Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reduction 1,523 1,019 Allis-Chalmers 1,170 482 American Bank Note 722 104 Aviation Corp. (Del.) 863 D 334 D Byers (cast iron pipe) 331 49 Borg Warner 1,097 325 Caterpillar Tractor 3,365 1,031 Chrysler Corp. 180 979 D Corn Products Refining 3,152 2,389 Curtis Publishing 6,533 4,654 General Electric 15,042 11,488 General Foods 5,990 5,572 General Motors 44,968 28,999 Gillette 2,164 1,421 Hudson Motor Car 2,316 226 Hupp Motor Car 66 680 D McGraw-Hill Publishing 534 372 Montgomery Ward...
Lincoln Steffens is old and grey but not full of sleep. And what he has to say is nobody's pipe-dream but a meaty, marrowy, seasoned report on an active life which many a reader will envy...
...potent competitor: Bull Durham. Ever since North Carolina's famed "bright yellow" tobacco had been discovered, by chance, in 1852, the pipe and chewing tobacco trade had been booming, and John R. Green had made his trade-mark world-famed.* It was Buck Duke who urged that the family go into the cigaret business, then undeveloped. They employed the first successful cigaret-making machine, got one William T. O'Brien, a bright young mechanic, to perfect it for them. Swift thereafter was the rise of W. Duke Sons & Co. and the formation in 1890 of American Tobacco Co. with...
Shell Oil Co. (a U. S. relative of Sir Henri Deterding's Royal Dutch Shell) last week announced a five-day week for field, pipe-line and refinery employes. "In line with practice generally established . . . aiding in the relief of the unemployment situation," explained the announcement. Back in 1929, the five-day week was a sociological movement, widely publicized. Lately it has been a corporate retrench- ment, little discussed. Westinghouse and Eastman Kodak in their factories have been recent converts to the five-day week. Some Ford plants run on a five-day, some on a three...
...watchman tell of a "ghost" he had heard one night last week, he walked into the engine-room and straight to a boarded-up hole in the floor, relic of an unsuccessful well-digging. Stopping his ears, holding a knife in his teeth, he touched the knife to a pipe which went downward. Presently he could hear a distant moaning...