Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning this week a ketch-rigged three-master put to sea from a Brooklyn shipyard. It was captained by a famed racing yacht skipper, Paul Hammond, and among its crew were Harvard undergraduates, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow Jr. (see above) and the wife and eldest daughter of Harvard's Professor Samuel Eliot Morison. Professor Morison sat tall and erect in the bow, clutching a copy of Christopher Columbus' journal in one hand, a notepad and pencil in the other. The professor and his companions were setting out on a Harvard expedition to retrace part of Columbus...
...Keller (see p. 54) told business something closely approaching this. Said Sloan: "Automobile sales will be fully as good as last year." Said Keller: "The immediate prospect seems to be that business will continue at current levels, or possibly show some improvement " A generous estimate of "some improvement" might put the Federal Reserve index at a fall peak of between 105 and no, to a fourth-quarter average perhaps 5% above 1938's 101 (average...
...which he raised among friends and business associates) Gross bought Lockheed, had the grass cut, put the watchman back on pay and went to work. From Stearman he hired brilliant, witty M. I. T.man Hall L. Hibbard to head his engineering department. In charge of sales he put smart Carl B. Squier, who had sold Lockheeds for the old company in every corner of the earth...
Italics have to be put on Chrysler earnings because of its Spartan depreciation policy. In the first half of 1937, on sales of $409,688,254, write-off to depreciation was $9.952,822. In the first half of 1939, on sales down to $342,788,293, Chrysler's write-off was upped even further to $11,311,840. Result: its half-year earnings amount to 11.5% of the assets on its books. Further result: a clean capital structure, written-off assets, low costs-all of which promise that if business gets better Chrysler profits will pyramid, if it gets...
...they soon found Federal control was complex and hard to understand. It also brought into the milkshed a formularized way of figuring milk prices: the "blended price." Milk was classified by the use to which it was put-from $2.25 per cwt. for Class I (bottled milk) down to 94? for Class IV-B (American Cheddar cheese), average estimated at $1.65 per cwt. To farmers who knew one gallon of milk cost about as much as another, who distrusted the reports of milk utilization turned in by dealers (although checked by the Department of Agriculture), this seemed an injustice. Many...