Word: portions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made $42,156 but even this tiny profit was welcome after five consecutive years of deficits. Of late Reo has become primarily a truck maker, in 1934 turning out only 3,854 passenger cars as against 5.035 trucks. Government purchases of trucks have supplied a very substantial portion of Reo's business but passenger-car sales thus far in 1935 have barely passed last year's total. Willys-Overland, in receivership since February 1933, sold its Canadian plant, and a subsidiary in Elmira, N.Y. has been seized by the sheriff for nonpayment of taxes...
...Corp. said, in effect, to his troublesome corporate offspring: "Go and never darken my door again." But the orphan was not put out into any storm. Waiting to receive it was Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp. which, together with Lehman Bros., Manhattan banking house, bought an unspecified portion of RCA's holdings in RKO stocks and debentures. What Atlas and Lehman paid for their purchase was equally unstated but, inasmuch as the deal carried an option to buy whatever RKO securities Radio Corp. may still hold, the transaction may result in a complete shift of RKO parentage...
Every night it's my portion...
...large College, which influences the thought of a country, maintains its vigor through maintaining a flexible structure which can be adapted to change. A portion of Harvard's structure is the theory of concentration and distribution which may now adjust itself to the demands of the present and the future...
...bales. That estimate was well under the big crops of the late 1920's, but it was 2,100,000 bales larger than last year. With world consumption of U. S. cotton down to 12,250,000 bales, the chance of getting rid of any worthwhile portion of the 8,700,000 bale surplus this year was reduced to practically zero...