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...housing boom, now being choked off by the new credit controls, had proved a bonanza for many a supplier. Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co., whose rug sales had slumped last year, managed to increase its net an incredible 30-fold from $61,500 to $1.9 million by merely doubling its sales. Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co., which boosted its nine-month net six-fold to $4 million, declared an extra dividend of 50?. So did American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp., biggest in the plumbing fixtures trade. American Radiator's net hit an alltime high of $17.7 million for the first...
...Queen Mary's needlepoint rug...
Both Jim Churchill and Rug Warner forced well in the backfield for Coach Jules Alphonse. After unimpressive appearances in earlier games, Churchill and Rug Warner forced well in the backfield for Coach Jules Alphonse. After unimpressive appearances in earlier games, Churchill showed great improvement in the passing department. Warner's ball-handling was also improved...
...stumbling along on a $1,450,000 budget-far below what it needed. The roof of historic old Cutler Hall leaked, and the building had been condemned. Other buildings needed cleaning, painting, and repairing. Patches of bare ground showed through the campus turf like moth holes in a bearskin rug. Not surprisingly, faculty and student morale was in the dumps...
College Prom (Elliot Lawrence and Orchestra; Decca). Strictly for rolling the rug back. Includes such favorites as I Can't Get Started, East of the Sun, Deep Purple, etc., done up in a more danceable than distinguished style...