Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week figures from abroad indicated a slight leveling off in business, but London's famed financial sheet,The Economist, remarked: "We cannot conclude that the downward trend in British business has been reversed. . . . In France, where for some months rising wholesale prices have paradoxically countered falling industrial production, a slight improvement has set in. . . . Only in Scandinavia is business maintained at a high level, but even there certain signs of a recession in investment activity have appeared. The recession has gathered way in the Low Countries; and the Far East must still be counted out of the commercial...
...extraordinary survey on the popularity of Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, Oct. 4, 1937, et ante). Using the same scientific sampling of the electorate which predicted the results of the 1936 election with an error of less than i%, FORTUNE presents a page of charts and statistics giving a balance sheet of Franklin Roosevelt's popularity-probably a more complete, objective picture of the basic political situation in the U. S. than has ever been drawn up. Its prime facts...
Among other items in last week's price news were two which surely pleased Franklin Roosevelt, one which offered some hope of business improvement: 1) The price of galvanized steel sheet was cut $3 a ton. Steel is one thing that Franklin Roosevelt still considers too costly and he has often remarked that the steel industry will not revive until prices are cut. But steel prices are as stiff as any in the country and this opinion bounced off steelmasters like BB shot off a tank. Last week it seemed that where Franklin Roosevelt had failed to dent their...
...bring themselves to throw out after the last exam, and which now represent the sole tangible total of a thousand lectures and a thousand hours in the libraries--their college education in final essence. And the name of Harvard, that which they can never lose now, graven on a sheet of parchment and 650 young hearts--that goes with them...
...Edsel and Edsel's wife, Eleanor. Because it has no other stockholders to coddle, the company does not publish an income statement and the public cannot know exactly what Ford's earnings are. Only clue to the firm's profits & losses is the balance sheet it is required to file each year in Massachusetts. Last week the report for 1937 was filed and the public's annual guessing game got under way. Majority guess: Although Ford produced 1,314,369 cars & trucks (10% more than in 1936), profit & loss surplus increased only...