Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danzig alive (the city always depended on the Polish hinterland for its business) Poland continues to allot almost half her sea cargo to the Free City. Last year Gdynia handled 8,173,400 cargo tons, incoming and outgoing, almost twice as much as New Orleans handled; Danzig's share was 7,127,200 tons...
...young-he decided-to be Freeport's president. But from the vice president's chair he saw that officers' salaries were cut 30%, that expenses were pared all around, that dividend rates were lowered. (In 1928 the company had paid $6.50 a share, earned only $4.49.) By 1933 Lang Williams was 30 and old enough to be president. Baltimore Financier Eugene L. Norton, who had held the job "in trust" for him, stepped down and Williams stepped...
Quicksand? With the exception of smart Simon & Schuster, who have a share in the business, most publishers were skeptical. Said one: "We are cooperating because of all the agitation for cheap books and the success of cheap books in Europe. We feel we ought to give it a chance-to show that it won't work here. If we thought it would really go, we would hesitate much longer about letting him have our plates." Said another: "The price is still too high for paperbound books-they have to sell at 10? or 15?, compete with magazines." A third...
...another subject calling for action before June 30, when WPA's appropriations would run out. Last fortnight the House, with fair speed, passed a measure granting as much money ($1,735,000,000) as Franklin Roosevelt asked for but switching $125,000,000 from WPA's share to PWA, for continuance of heavy construction projects (TIME, June 26). The measure also killed the Federal Theatre and crippled other white-collar projects, called for a three-man, bipartisan WPAdministration, limited WPA building projects to $50,000. As the Senate settled down to ponder this bill, Actress Tallulah Bankhead...
...trees in the Federal forest is the contention that when Arthur Vining Davis organized Aluminium Ltd. in 1928, he had no intention of making it a competitor of Alcoa. What he did want, the Government said, was to reach through Aluminium Ltd. into the world aluminum cartel and share international trade with Swiss, German, French and British aluminum monopolies on a nice, friendly basis, with an ugly throat-cutting all laid out for any upstart competitors...