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...persuade corporation managements that their employes would serve them better if they talked better. So strong a spur is company endorsement that sometimes the institute sells every single employe. Biggest customers: employes of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (11,067 courses), J. C. Penney Co., Inc. (11,000), Sears, Roebuck and Co. (10,750). All told the institute has sold 650,000 courses in hundreds of corporations...
...Wood wryly recalled that last summer he felt that conditions were good and went away for a six-weeks hunting trip. "When I came back I found I was 100% wrong." This time, however, General Wood was ready to guess that good times were not far away, for Sears, Roebuck inventories, having been cut some 40%, in common with most inventories are "pretty well worked...
Then came the businessmen: President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck, President Gerard Swope of General Electric, Chairman Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, President Henry C. Turner of Turner Construction Co., Banker S. Sloan Colt. When the stock-market promptly registered a hopeful advance after these conferences, it was so much like old times that the New York Sun printed a parallel series of 1929 and 1937 headlines. In the Hoover tradition, but not the Hoover manner, the President let it be known that he hoped to end the decline not by Government spending but by doing...
...every 30 seconds, each preceded by the word FLASH. These up-to-date figures sprinkled through the bulk of late statistics are supposed to give traders an inkling of the market's trend. The 16 FLASH issues: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; American Telephone & Telegraph; Anaconda Copper; Chrysler; Sears, Roebuck; Great Northern (preferred); Consolidated Edison; Republic Steel; General Motors; Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric; N. Y. Central; Electric Power & Light; U. S. Steel; U. S. Rubber; Douglas Aircraft...
...slap in the face to the C. I. O.-hating Premier came unexpectedly from Windsor and Toronto where David A. Croll and Arthur W. Roebuck, former Hepburn cabinet members who split with "Mitch" on the C. I. O. stand, were returned with large majorities...