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Word: s-but (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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...kind of man who looks his Corporation's troubles in the eye. He announced: 1) that Big Steel would pay its regular quarterly preferred dividend (again better than 75% unearned); 2) that second-quarter earnings ($1,309,761) were about $650,000 more than the first quarter's-but only because the Corporation decided to cut depreciation charges by $700,000. Three days later Mr. Stettinius had no happier prospects when Montana's Senator Burt Wheeler threw a spanner into steel and other durable goods industries by defeating Mr. Roosevelt's rail equipment plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Steelspeakers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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