Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first glance, the casket business would seem depression-proof. Yet a shrewd investor would realize that since the price range of caskets swings from less than $100 to many thousands, bad years will result in smaller gross sales, smaller profits. When last week National Casket Co. reported profits of $925,000 for the year ended June 30 against $1,518,000 in the previous year, President Philip B. Heinz commented on this fact. But he also suggested an economic relationship which would occur only to the hypersuspicious investor. "Nature would also seem to play some part in it," said...
...Witcher, who lived nearby. In Witcher's apartment, the detectives encountered James Dalton, Diamond's chauffeur, come to take Mrs. Witcher to visit in Acra. The visit was postponed .and all present were arrested, because under a Witcher bed was discovered a terrifying gangland armory, including bullet-proof vests, "pineapple" hand-grenades, tear gas bombs, revolver ammunition, several calibres of "fountain-pen" pistols, dynamite...
...industry continues. According to Department of Commerce figures issued last week, lightning rod business was $923,000 in 1928, $1,232,000 in 1929. Sales at present are running slightly ahead of normal. Thus the lightning rod industry must be added to those very select trades which are depression proof...
Last week the U. S. Embassy was able to lay before a French military tribunal clear proof that Charles Hartmann of Hollister, Calif, had never left the U. S. since his entrance in 1872, had never been a French citizen. Obviously some rogue had taken advantage of his absence to use his name. Elaborately the tribunal apologized. The accused was free to return to Nordheim where, however, far fewer remembered Hartmann the Californian, than Hartmann...
...Green Point, L. I. the upper surface of a floor of aerocrete 4½ in. thick kept a temperature of 139° to 207° F. during the last hour of a four-hour fire of 1,825° F. blazing underneath. (The maximum temperature of a burning fire proof building averages 1,700° F.) The same floor when cooled resisted a load of 450 lb. per sq. in. with deflections ranging from...