Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crosley agencies, where they can be rolled in at most front doors, displayed on sales floors among radios and refrigerators. Markets which Crosley dealers will go for hardest: the man who cannot afford a new higher-priced car; the family with one standard car which could use a second for shopping, commuting, taking the children to school. But, as Willys has found, the market for cars that can be built to sell new below $600 is strictly limited, is always subject to invasion by cheaper models of the watchful Big Three...
Born. To Elizabeth Donner Winsor, divorced wife of Elliott Roosevelt, and her second husband, Curtin Winsor; her second, their first, son; in Philadelphia. Weight...
...reports sent last week to stockholders. For 188 large industrials, profits were up 110% over the first quarter of 1938, for General Motors and Chrysler profits were up about 600%. But businessmen, like baseball fans, no longer care who won the last World Series. They are already figuring on second quarter earnings...
...turn of the century a Yale psychology professor named George Trumbull Ladd delivered a set of lectures in Japan which revolutionized its educational methods. He was the first foreigner to receive the Third and Second Orders of the Rising Sun. When he died, half his ashes were buried in a Tokyo Temple and a monument was erected to him. This gave his son, George Tallman Ladd, an unbeatable commercial entree in Japan. When he went after Japanese business for his United Engineering & Foundry Co. in 1934, 150 priests performed ceremonies over his father's tomb...
...been its poor airmail contract and the lack of feeders for its slim cross-country line. The new Civil Aeronautics Authority has partly remedied the first by awarding T. W. A. $400,000 extra mail compensation two months ago and increased further compensation. John Hertz tried to remedy the second last year by unsuccessfully bidding for Eastern Air Lines (TIME, March...