Word: porters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...head nurse is a broth of a girl named Susan (Miss Dunne again), accompanying her father, Hiram Porter Dunn (Frank Morgan), on a trip to England. Hiram, a 100% American, dis likes suet puddings, spends most of his time in England fighting over the War of 1812 with a 100% British Colonel (C. Aubrey Smith...
Santa Cruz. By Oct. 26, 1942, the U.S. Navy and the hard-pressed Marines who had landed on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7 were still hanging on by the skin of their teeth. The carrier Hornet was sunk, and the recently repaired Enterprise was badly damaged. The destroyer Porter was sunk. The brand-new battleship South Dakota was damaged (and her famed Captain Thomas L. Gatch wounded). The cruiser San Juan suffered "considerable" damage. "We sank no enemy vessels . . . but there were partial compensations. Two enemy carriers had been put out of action and four Japanese air groups had been...
...turn out heavy-caliber shells. He kept on scouting U.S. industry for more bargains, bought the Quimby Pump Co., whose Newark and New Brunswick (N.J.) plants had a sizable backlog of Navy and Maritime Commission orders. To get further diversification he set up a new division of the Porter Co. and plunged into the gas & oil business. Although still on an experimental basis, he grossed a tidy $250,000 last year from wells in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kansas...
...long owned by a family trust. Tom Evans heard that the heirs wanted to get their cash out. Fortnight ago, he took the biggest jump of all by buying it (assets $10,000,000) and its subsidiary, J. P. Devine Co. (chemical processing equipment). By this deal, the Porter Co. shouldered into the car-building business. In one move, Tom Evans got 10% of the nation's freight-car-making facilities, and became the biggest U.S. manufacturer of certain types of process equipment-i.e., condensers...
Cash In. With all this bargain buying, the Porter Co., which grossed $9,000,000 last year, will probably quadruple its gross this year to around $35,000,000, will net upward of $1,000,000. But Tom Evans looks to the postwar world to provide the real windfall. With the railroads already talking about spending $1,000,000,000 a year in the first postwar years, he sees no reason why there should not be a market for 100,000 cars a year for at least five years. And with his sleeves already rolled for battle, he confidently predicted...