Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Willard is not Haile Selassie and the photograph was not of his good friend Harry Wherrett. With a rebuke to Keystone Photos for misbranding a print and apologies to Mr. Wherrett, TIME gladly publishes an authentic likeness of the president of Pittsburgh Plate Glass...
Sirs: I respectfully call your attention to your article in TIME, Feb. 3, about the history of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. The photograph, supposedly of Mr. Wherrett, was a big mistake...
...brac which he promptly began to sell to the elder Morgan, Joseph Widener, Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden and other Orientalists. No passer-by would ever know that it was an art shop because Tom Clarke never had a show window, never published an advertisement, never hung out a name plate. His business was conducted entirely through privately circulated catalogs. About six feet tall, bald and pink-cheeked, Tom Clarke was a man of bound less energy, though a childhood attack of diphtheria left him with a lame foot which he dragged all his life. He was one of the founders...
...Vestris, which went down in a storm with no persons off the Virginia Capes seven years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Decided a Federal Court in Manhattan: The disaster was an "act of God" for which Lamport & Holt Line Ltd., operators, and Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., owners, need pay no more than the $500,000 they have already given claimants...
...more reasonable explanation was a downward revision in estimates of American Can's 1935 earnings. American Can had been figured to make almost $7 a share. More recent estimates pared prospective earnings to $6 or less, compared to actual 1934 earnings of $6.72. The price of tin plate (and therefore of tin cans) has not changed since the end of 1933, but in 1934 both the big can companies were selling at 1934 prices cans made out of 1933 tin plate. When the old inventories were exhausted, the differential ceased to exist. Continental Can, however, probably made about...