Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reno a wife may get rid of one husband and acquire another the same day, but industries seldom undergo such swift vicissitudes. For them the process of losing one meal ticket and acquiring another is generally a matter of years. Not so the U. S. shipping industry. Last week, after only 75 days of argument, it underwent the equivalent of a Reno divorce and remarriage, with a disconcerting reduction of alimony...
...knows his trade from the ground down and is willing to go out on a case at any hour, in any season, over any sort of roads, James Vandergrift has the eastern field to himself. Dow Chemical Co. is having comparable success with acid treatment in Oklahoma, Chemical Process Co. in Texas...
...Those accused by the FTC: A. G. Spalding & Bros., N. Y.; John Wanamaker, Philadelphia; L. A. Young Golf Co.. Detroit; Worthington Ball Co., Elyria, Ohio; Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Chicago; U. S. Rubber Products, N. Y.; Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp., N. Y.; Acushnet Process Co., New Bedford, Mass...
...background of this not very alarming slump were a number of developments highly important to Western Union Telegraph Co. One was the process of recovery within the company itself. In 1935 Western Union made $5,258,000 against $2,243,000 in 1934. Last year it made $7,199,120. But whereas operating expenses in 1935 were actually less than the year before, last year they increased $6,706,000, including taxes and interest. Reasons: 1) three successive wage restorations by which Western Union employes received an additional $1,300,000 in 1936; 2) higher costs of materials used...
Poignantly for Milwaukee's taxpayers, Milwaukee might once have purchased rights to the Activated Sludge patents for $25,000 but preferred to gamble on their validity. The process was originally suggested at the Lawrence Experimental Station in Massachusetts in 1890. Further experiments were carried on in Manchester, England. About 1914 patents on the process were taken out in England and elsewhere by a British foundryman named Walter Jones. He formed Activated Sludge, Ltd., died in 1922. An American named Edgar C. Guthard, the U. S. licensee, and Activated Sludge, Ltd. sued Chicago's Sanitary District...