Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Stock Exchange to require financial statements from all member-firms doing business with the public. Late in 1937, apparently eager to beat SEC to the gun, the Exchange extended this rule to firms such as Richard Whitney's which do business with brokers and banks. First report was due on Feb. 15. With his company virtually insolvent. Dick Whitney asked for an extension of time. This naturally piqued the Exchange's curiosity. When the Whitney report arrived, the Exchange scrutinized it carefully and immediately sent its own accountant over to the Whitney offices to verify the figures...
...last week Johns-Manville's President Lewis H. Brown, having mystified many a stockholder, startlingly reversed his field when he issued an 18-page illustrated annual report to his workers. "Here is what happened," said Mr. Brown, "to the $39,861,579 which we added to the value of the raw materials and products bought for resale after they reached our plants: We paid in salaries and wages to Johns-Manville jobholders $20,354,000. Our taxes, Federal, State and local, were $2,077,000. For research and development of new and improved products and processes...
...procedure in employe relations the report was pretty smart, too. John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers are currently organizing Johns-Manville plants, and Mr. Brown may hope his workers may be soothed by a pie-chart of Johns-Manville income, showing that they get the biggest piece...
...read, wrote & multiplied. The investigating committee, headed by Assistant Commissioner John Cayce Morrison, sympathetic to progressive education, also tried to measure how well Roslyn was getting along toward good social and moral habits, an understanding of the world, "joy and happiness." Last week Dr. Morrison produced a 56-page report, announced these salient findings...
Pistol shrimp, which snap their claws with a report as loud as that of a cap pistol...