Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Motors announced that it would lay off some 200,000 workers-more than half its total force-for at least a week, because of steel and pig-iron shortages. The motor industry, Ward's Automotive Reports said, would make about 265,000 fewer cars and trucks this quarter than expected...
Action in the last quarter slowed down a bit but George Hanford's Freshmen kept their heads above the water and finished up with a safe margin. Rick Hudner chalked up five goals, Bill Plissner and Dick Post got three each, and Ed Thayer picked up the remaining...
...committee headed by Harry P. Haveles '48 reported that a poll completed last month showed that non-veterans in the bottom income quarter spend an average of $699 per term, yet have a planned revenue of only $550. Corresponding figures exist for veterans...
...heaviest floods in over 100 years burst over Missouri River banks last June, destroying lives, crops, property, and running up a tremendous bill of more than a quarter of a billion dollars. The floods also brought swift and angry demands from Missouri Valley citizens for relief action by the penny-wise U. S. Congress which had cut river control funds early in 1947. So once again, Congress found itself faced with the perplexing problem of what to do with the Missouri River. The piecemeal sandbag method evidently wasn't working. But although President Truman called for an ambitious program...
Smoke, No Fire. Those who expected a proxy fight at American Tobacco Co.'s annual meeting were disappointed. George Washington Hill Jr., who resigned in a huff a month ago (TIME, March 29), did not show up. President Vincent Riggio announced a first-quarter sales increase over the same period last year in both unit sales (up 8.10%) and dollar sales (up 8.06%). Stockholders in turn expressed confidence in the management by re-electing 16 directors and voting down a ceiling on executive compensation (Riggio's pay last year...